The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
$348.76
- Hardcover
668 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2016
Summary
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scholars of the English short story generally, it w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107167421 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107167426 |
| Author: | Dominic Head |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 668 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 160mm x 40mm |
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Critics Review
‘… the book covers enormous ground - colonial stories, rural stories, queer stories, comic stories - and makes room for obscure writers beside the heavyweights … with this approach, an expert writes each chapter. Highlights include Heather Ingman on the Irish short story and Roger Luckhurst on weird fiction, that amorphous zone between horror, fantasy and surrealism.’ Chris Power, New Statesman
About The Author
Dominic Head
Dominic Head is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Head of School from 2007–10. He has written extensively on forms of literature and is author of The Modernist Short Story (Cambridge, 1992) and The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 (Cambridge, 2002), and editor of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, 3rd edition (Cambridge, 2006).
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