British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Rise of the TaleAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 193 páginas Beginning with an overview of the development of short fiction through the late 18th-century and analysis of the publishing conditions for the genre, Tim Killick shows how Washington Irving's collections set the stage for British writers. The book then considers the stories of writers as diverse as Mary Russell Mitford and James Hogg. |
Contenido
Overview Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century | 5 |
Washington Irving Geoffrey Crayon and the Market for Short Fiction | 39 |
Improving Stories Women Writers Morality and Short Fiction | 73 |
Regionalism and Folklore Local Stories and Traditional Forms | 117 |
Short Fiction in the 1830s | 157 |
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Amelia Opie American anthologies appeared argues audience authors ballads belief Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Blackwood's Magazine Bracebridge Hall Britain British Short Fiction Chapter characters claims collections of short contemporary Corbetts critical cultural Cunningham didactic Dolph Heyliger early nineteenth century edition eighteenth English Novel essays evangelical fairy folklore folktale Garside genre German gift-books Hannah More's helped Hogg's imagination Irish James Hogg John Legends Lights and Shadows literature London Magazine Maria Edgeworth Mary Russell Mitford Mitford's mode modern moral fiction narrative narrator novelistic Opie periodical press political popular Preface prose publication published reader readership regional Review of Irving's Rip Van Winkle Romantic period rural Scotland sentimental Shadows of Scottish Shepherd's Calendar short fiction short story Sketch Book social society story collections storytelling Studies in Hogg supernatural superstition tale collections titles tracts University Press Victorian Village vols London Walter Scott Washington Irving William Winter writers of short