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Short stories and short fiction

Short stories and short fiction
Short stories and short fiction
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.

The 36 expert contributors to Volume 4 trace the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the cumbersome 3-volume novels of the 1880s to the 'paperback revolution' in the late 1930s. It looks at the intense debates over the nature and purpose of the novel in the period, the development of new popular sub-genres, and the stratification of the readership of fiction. In a period characterized by huge political and economic upheavals and wholesale revisions of personal morality and sexual and linguistic taboos, the volume traces both the process of modernist experimentation and the work of novelists who registered the social and cultural impact of modernity. The topics covered include national (Irish, Scottish, and Welsh), regional, and women's fiction; the influence of the European novel, of the cinema, and the growth of the modern city; the impact of the Empire, class-consciousness, and the First World War; and such specialized forms as the children's novel, detective stories, and thriller, science fiction and fantasy, and the short story.
9780199559336
288-302
Oxford University Press
Hanson, Clare
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Parrinder, Patrick
Gasiorek, Andrzej
Hanson, Clare
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Parrinder, Patrick
Gasiorek, Andrzej

Hanson, Clare (2010) Short stories and short fiction. In, Parrinder, Patrick and Gasiorek, Andrzej (eds.) The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Volume 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940. (Oxford History of the Novel in English) Oxford, GB. Oxford University Press, pp. 288-302.

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.

The 36 expert contributors to Volume 4 trace the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the cumbersome 3-volume novels of the 1880s to the 'paperback revolution' in the late 1930s. It looks at the intense debates over the nature and purpose of the novel in the period, the development of new popular sub-genres, and the stratification of the readership of fiction. In a period characterized by huge political and economic upheavals and wholesale revisions of personal morality and sexual and linguistic taboos, the volume traces both the process of modernist experimentation and the work of novelists who registered the social and cultural impact of modernity. The topics covered include national (Irish, Scottish, and Welsh), regional, and women's fiction; the influence of the European novel, of the cinema, and the growth of the modern city; the impact of the Empire, class-consciousness, and the First World War; and such specialized forms as the children's novel, detective stories, and thriller, science fiction and fantasy, and the short story.

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Published date: 9 December 2010
Organisations: Humanities

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Local EPrints ID: 147841
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/147841
ISBN: 9780199559336
PURE UUID: c97f49fe-a2d4-4423-9447-2bc29441a2b1
ORCID for Clare Hanson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4641-9483

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Date deposited: 26 Apr 2010 15:51
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:51

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Author: Clare Hanson ORCID iD
Editor: Patrick Parrinder
Editor: Andrzej Gasiorek

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