British women short story writers : the new woman to now /
What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers, and what this can tell us about the society and culture they inhabit. From the rise of the modern printing press at the end of the nineteenth centur...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Ali Smith
- Introduction / Emma Young and James Bailey
- The elusive melody : music and trauma in New Woman short stories / Maura Dunst
- Beyond the haunted house? Modernist women's ghost stories and the troubling of modernity / Emma Liggins
- Potboilers or 'glimpses' of reality? The cultural and the material in the Modernist short story / Rebecca Bowles
- War and the short story : Elizabeth Bowen / Adam Piette
- 'Haunted, whether we like it or not' : the ghost stories of Muriel Spark / James Bailey
- Disaggregative character identity and the politics of aesthetic in-betweenness in Angela Carter's short narratives / Michelle Ryan-Santour
- New waves of interest : women's short story writing in the late twentieth century / Ailsa Cox
- Feminist f(r)iction : short stories and postmodern politics at the millennial moment / Emma Young
- Class as destiny in the sort stories of Tessa Hadley / Sue Vice
- Address, temporality and misdelivery : the postal effects of Ali Smith's short stories / Ben Davies
- Housewives and half-stories : a question of genre and gender in microfiction / Holly Howitt-Dring
- Postscript : British women's short story writing / Clare Hanson.