Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Seán O’Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s (2014), and editor of Reading Colm Tóibín (2008) and William Trevor: Revaluations, with Michael Parker (2013). Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (2007), and of several articles and chapters on British and North American short fiction. He is currently editing a volume of James Hogg’s contributions to international periodicals for the definitive Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of Hogg’s work, also published by Edinburgh University Press.

This collection brilliantly reconciles the traditional text/context divide in short story criticism, showcasing a wide variety of approaches to a wide variety of material. You will find Edgar Allan Poe, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf here, but also Jhumpa Lahiri, Sam Selvon and Benjamin Franklin; anthologies and little magazines, but also short-shorts and Kindle Singles; genre and institutional history, but also eco-criticism and disability studies. This rich and diverse collection of essays will be essential reading for anyone interested in the English-language short story.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPaul Delaney & Adrian HunterPart 1: Historicising the Short Story Transnationalism and the Transatlantic Short Story Michael J. CollinsThe Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies Adrian HunterImpressionism and the Short Story Paul March-RussellWriters on the Short Story: 1950-present Ailsa CoxPart 2: Publishing the Short StoryThe Short Story and the ‘Little Magazine’ Beryl PongCollections, Cycles, and Sequences Jennifer J. SmithThe Short Story Anthology Elke D’hokerThe Short Story and Digital Media Laura DietzPart 3: Forms of the Short StoryShort-Short Fiction Michael BasselerThe Weird Tale Timothy JonesThe Horror Story Darryl JonesExperimental Short Stories Jeremy ScottThe War Story Adam PiettePart 4: Placing the Short StoryRegionalism and the Short Story Lucy EvansThe Short Story and the City Philip ColemanThe Short Story in Suburbia Joanna PriceThe Short Story and the Environment Deborah Lilley & Sam SolnickPart 5: Identity and the Short Story Gender and Genre in the Short Story Ruth RobbinsDiaspora and the Short Story Sam NaiduThe Queer Short Story Brett Josef GrubisicDisability and the Short Story Alice Hall　Index

Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Seán O’Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s (2014), and editor of Reading Colm Tóibín (2008) and William Trevor: Revaluations, with Michael Parker (2013). Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (2007), and of several articles and chapters on British and North American short fiction. He is currently editing a volume of James Hogg’s contributions to international periodicals for the definitive Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of Hogg’s work, also published by Edinburgh University Press.

This collection brilliantly reconciles the traditional text/context divide in short story criticism, showcasing a wide variety of approaches to a wide variety of material. You will find Edgar Allan Poe, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf here, but also Jhumpa Lahiri, Sam Selvon and Benjamin Franklin; anthologies and little magazines, but also short-shorts and Kindle Singles; genre and institutional history, but also eco-criticism and disability studies. This rich and diverse collection of essays will be essential reading for anyone interested in the English-language short story.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPaul Delaney & Adrian HunterPart 1: Historicising the Short Story Transnationalism and the Transatlantic Short Story Michael J. CollinsThe Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies Adrian HunterImpressionism and the Short Story Paul March-RussellWriters on the Short Story: 1950-present Ailsa CoxPart 2: Publishing the Short StoryThe Short Story and the ‘Little Magazine’ Beryl PongCollections, Cycles, and Sequences Jennifer J. SmithThe Short Story Anthology Elke D’hokerThe Short Story and Digital Media Laura DietzPart 3: Forms of the Short StoryShort-Short Fiction Michael BasselerThe Weird Tale Timothy JonesThe Horror Story Darryl JonesExperimental Short Stories Jeremy ScottThe War Story Adam PiettePart 4: Placing the Short StoryRegionalism and the Short Story Lucy EvansThe Short Story and the City Philip ColemanThe Short Story in Suburbia Joanna PriceThe Short Story and the Environment Deborah Lilley & Sam SolnickPart 5: Identity and the Short Story Gender and Genre in the Short Story Ruth RobbinsDiaspora and the Short Story Sam NaiduThe Queer Short Story Brett Josef GrubisicDisability and the Short Story Alice Hall　Index

Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Seán O’Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s (2014), and editor of Reading Colm Tóibín (2008) and William Trevor: Revaluations, with Michael Parker (2013). Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (2007), and of several articles and chapters on British and North American short fiction. He is currently editing a volume of James Hogg’s contributions to international periodicals for the definitive Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of Hogg’s work, also published by Edinburgh University Press.

This collection brilliantly reconciles the traditional text/context divide in short story criticism, showcasing a wide variety of approaches to a wide variety of material. You will find Edgar Allan Poe, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf here, but also Jhumpa Lahiri, Sam Selvon and Benjamin Franklin; anthologies and little magazines, but also short-shorts and Kindle Singles; genre and institutional history, but also eco-criticism and disability studies. This rich and diverse collection of essays will be essential reading for anyone interested in the English-language short story.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPaul Delaney & Adrian HunterPart 1: Historicising the Short Story Transnationalism and the Transatlantic Short Story Michael J. CollinsThe Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies Adrian HunterImpressionism and the Short Story Paul March-RussellWriters on the Short Story: 1950-present Ailsa CoxPart 2: Publishing the Short StoryThe Short Story and the ‘Little Magazine’ Beryl PongCollections, Cycles, and Sequences Jennifer J. SmithThe Short Story Anthology Elke D’hokerThe Short Story and Digital Media Laura DietzPart 3: Forms of the Short StoryShort-Short Fiction Michael BasselerThe Weird Tale Timothy JonesThe Horror Story Darryl JonesExperimental Short Stories Jeremy ScottThe War Story Adam PiettePart 4: Placing the Short StoryRegionalism and the Short Story Lucy EvansThe Short Story and the City Philip ColemanThe Short Story in Suburbia Joanna PriceThe Short Story and the Environment Deborah Lilley & Sam SolnickPart 5: Identity and the Short Story Gender and Genre in the Short Story Ruth RobbinsDiaspora and the Short Story Sam NaiduThe Queer Short Story Brett Josef GrubisicDisability and the Short Story Alice Hall　Index