The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950

This collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 18801950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and authors, chapters investigate the presence, status and functioning of short stories within a variety of periodical publications highbrow and popular, mainstream and specialised, middlebrow and avant-garde. Examining the impact of social and publishing networks on the production, dissemination and reception of short stories, it foregrounds the ways in which magazines and periodicals shaped conversations about the short story form and prompted or provoked writers into developing the genre.

“The short story and the modern magazine grew up together, but the story of their mutual emergence has been slow to develop. At last, here is a volume that delves into this culturally vibrant symbiosis on all levels, from game-changing theoretical accounts to sharp, empirical micro-histories. This book is a must-have for short story experts and periodical studies scholars--indeed for anyone fascinated by the interactions between emerging media and cultural forms.”

The collection as a whole effectively tackles the difficult task of balancing textual and con-textual analysis. As such, it provides a rich discussion of the short story within periodical culture over time. The chapters demonstrate a real commitment to exploring diverse short stories and venues up to 1950 even as they turn our critical attention to intertextual relations, offering necessary breadth to our understanding of the short story during this period.--Kate Krueger, Clarkson University "English Studies"
-- "Patrick Collier, Ball State University"
This volume assembles an impressive array of contributions, with broad thematic concerns, and diverse approaches to the rich terrain of periodical studies. The collection fully demonstrates the various ways in which the periodical as a medium may reshape our understanding of modernism and modernity. Attending to little magazines as well as middlebrow and illustrated popular magazines, it resonates richly with the New Modernist Studies' agenda of expanding the cultural latitude of high modernism. It is essential reading for researchers interested in modern periodical studies, and the short story form.--Yen-Chi Wu, Academia Sinica "The Modernist Review"

Elke D'hoker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven and Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She is the author of a critical study on John Banville (2004) and of Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (2016). She has (co-)edited several essay collections, including Unreliable Narration (2008), Irish Women Writers (2011), Mary Lavin (2013), The Irish Short Story (2015), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (2021) and Sarah Hall: Critical Essays (2023). She has also (co-)edited two short story collections: Ethel Colburn Mayne. Selected Stories (2021) and The Writer's Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2023). She is vice-president of EFACIS and an editor of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe.

Chris Mourant is Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century English Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and he is an editor of the journal Modernist Cultures.

'The short story and the modern magazine grew up together, but the story of their mutual emergence has been slow to develop. At last, here is a volume that delves into this culturally vibrant symbiosis on all levels, from game-changing theoretical accounts to sharp, empirical micro-histories. This book is a must-have for short story experts and periodical studies scholars - indeed for anyone fascinated by the interactions between emerging media and cultural forms.'Patrick Collier, Ball State UniversityExplores the relationship between magazine culture and the development of the modern short story form in BritainThis collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880-1950, the heydays of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and authors, chapters investigate the presence, status and functioning of short stories within a variety of periodical publications - highbrow and popular, mainstream and specialised, middlebrow and avant-garde. Examining the impact of social and publishing networks on the production, dissemination and reception of short stories, it foregrounds the ways in which magazines and periodicals shaped conversations about the short story form and prompted or provoked writers into developing the genre.Elke D'hoker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven.Chris Mourant is Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

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