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The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
Dominic Head
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Description for The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
hardcover. A comprehensive overview of the English short story, charting its origins and development through to the present day. Editor(s): Head, Dominic. Num Pages: 668 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 168 x 255 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1068.
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 will become a standard work of reference in its field.
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 will become a standard work of reference in its field.
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1067g
Number of Pages
668
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107167421
SKU
V9781107167421
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Ref
99-8
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
'... 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 ... Read more