The Victorian Short Story

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770483012
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories written by and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories beautifully demonstrates the astonishing variety and ingenuity of Victorian short stories. This collection brings together works focused on a wide range of popular Victorian subjects in many different styles and forms (including comic, gothic, fantasy, adventure, and colonial works; science fiction; children’s tales; New Woman writing; Irish yarns; stories originally published in popular periodicals; and travel stories). Both well-known and lesser-known authors are included, and both men and women are well represented. This anthology includes twenty-six annotated stories, a general introduction that discusses the history of the genre’s development in relation to key socio-political issues of the Victorian era, and suggestions for secondary readings. It also includes an intriguing selection of Victorian writings on the genre by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Frederick Wedmore, and Laura Marholm Hansson.

Author : Kate Flint
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Love Stories written by Kate Flint and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-two stories, mostly dating from the 1880s and later, originally published in magazines.

Author : Emma Liggins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230300804
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Short Story written by Emma Liggins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story remains a crucial - if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear, jargon-free way.

Author : Harold Orel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521258995
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Short Story written by Harold Orel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-06-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the development of the Victorian short story, which by the 1890s had become the most popular literary product of the late nineteenth century.

Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776677951
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Short Stories written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, attitudes about love, marriage, and gender roles began to undergo a radical shift. The five stories collected in this volume, written by literary luminaries such as Henry James, Walter Besant, and Thomas Hardy, expertly capture this period of transition.

Author : Alexis Weedon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351875868
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Publishing written by Alexis Weedon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain. Chapters explore the significance of the export trade to the colonies and the rising importance of towns outside London as centres of publishing; the influence of technological change in increasing the variety and quantity of books; and how the business practice of literary publishing developed to expand the market for British and American authors. The book takes examples from the purchase and sale of popular fiction by Ouida, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ewing, and canonical authors such as George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Mark Twain. Consideration of the unique demands of the educational market complements the focus on fiction, as readers, arithmetic books, music, geography, science textbooks, and Greek and Latin classics became a staple for an increasing number of publishing houses wishing to spread the risk of novel publication.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781428046474
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages written by Rudyard Kipling and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101486171
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime written by Michael Sims and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316033597
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides an accessible overview of short fiction by writers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and other international sites. A collection of international experts examine the development of the short story in a variety of contexts from the early nineteenth century to the present. They consider how dramatic changes in the publishing landscape during this period - such as the rise of the fiction magazine and the emergence of new opportunities in online and electronic publishing - influenced the form, covering subgenres from detective fiction to flash fiction. Drawing on a wealth of critical scholarship to place the short story in the English literary tradition, this volume will be an invaluable guide for students of the short story in English.

Author : Rex Collings
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840220667
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Rex Collings and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.