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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories ; Chapter 3 Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women's Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity ; Chapter 4 Potboilers or 'Glimpses' of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short ; Chapter 5 War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen ; Chapter 6 'Haunted, whether we like it or not': The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark. |
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Chapter 7 Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter's Short NarrativesChapter 8 New Waves of Interest: Women's Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century ; Chapter 9 Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment ; Chapter 10 Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley ; Chapter 11 Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith's Short Stories ; Chapter 12 Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre and Gender in Microfiction. |
| Summary |
Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Women authors. |
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Short stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Short stories, English. |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain.
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Literature and society. |
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Great Britain. |
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain.
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Politics and literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Young, Emma (Learning development tutor), editor.
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Bailey, James (Writer of British women short story writers), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Young, Emma. British Women Short Story Writers. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2015 9781474401388 |
| ISBN |
9781474401395 (electronic book) |
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1474401392 (electronic book) |
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9781474407274 (electronic book) |
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1474407277 (electronic book) |
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9781474401388 |
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