The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

Paul Delaney, Adrian Hunter

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Edinburgh University Press
10 June 2025

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary reference works

New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literature This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Why have writers of so many nationalities and dispositions found the short story amenable to experimentation and discovery? What is the history and origin of the modern short story, and what has been the role of the publishing business, of academic criticism, of the Creative Writing 'industry', and of the digital revolution in shaping and disseminating it over the past two centuries? This collection of innovative essays by new and established scholars explores these and other questions, addressing stories from around the world, and considering their relationship to place, identity, history and genre.

Key Features New critical perspectives on the English-language short story by established scholars and new voicesProvides an international perspective on the formShowcases a wide range of critical approaches and perspectives, including Book History, genre criticism, postcolonial theory, queer studies, feminist criticism, war writing, disability studies, Creative Writing, and ecocriticism

Edited by: Paul Delaney, Adrian Hunter
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 172mm,
ISBN: 9781399546775
ISBN 10: 1399546775
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Seán O'Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s (2014), and editor of Reading Colm Tóibín (2008) and William Trevor: Revaluations, with Michael Parker (2013). Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (2007), and of several articles and chapters on British and North American short fiction. He is currently editing a volume of James Hogg's contributions to international periodicals for the definitive Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of Hogg's work, also published by Edinburgh University Press.

Reviews for The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

This collection brilliantly reconciles the traditional text/context divide in short story criticism, showcasing a wide variety of approaches to a wide variety of material. You will find Edgar Allan Poe, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf here, but also Jhumpa Lahiri, Sam Selvon and Benjamin Franklin; anthologies and little magazines, but also short-shorts and Kindle Singles; genre and institutional history, but also eco-criticism and disability studies. This rich and diverse collection of essays will be essential reading for anyone interested in the English-language short story.-- ""Kasia Boddy, University of Cambridge""