Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-196) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. The Nineteenth Century -- Introduction: Publishers, plots and prestige -- 1. Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy; 2. Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad -- 3. The Yellow Book circle and the 1890s avant-garde -- Part II. The Modernist Short Story -- Introduction: 'Complete with missing parts' -- 4. James Joyce -- 5. Virginia Woolf -- 6. Katherine Mansfield -- 7. Samuel Beckett -- Part III. Post-Modernist Stories -- Introduction: Theories of form -- 8. Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faolain -- 9. Elizabeth Bowen and V. S. Pritchett -- 10. Angela Carter and Ian McEwan -- Part IV. Post-colonial and Other Stories -- Introduction: A 'minor' literature? -- 11. Frank Sargeson and Marjorie Barnard -- 12. James Kelman and Chinua Achebe -- 13. Alice Munro.
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