Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950

Elke D’hoker is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven and Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She has published widely on Irish fiction, the modern short story, periodical studies and literary pedagogy. She is the author of Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (2016) and Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville (2004). She has edited or co-edited 11 books, including The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2022), Sarah Hall. Critical Essays (2022), Ethel Colburn Mayne. Selected Stories (2021), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (2021), The Irish Short Story (2015) and Mary Lavin (2013). 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 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.

• IntroductionElke D’hoker and Chris Mourant1. The ‘Wire-Puller’: L. T. Meade, Atalanta and the Development of the Short StoryWhitney Standlee2. The Short Story Series of Annie S. Swan for The Woman at HomeElke D’hoker3. Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Albemarle: A Study of ContextsDavid Malcolm4. ‘It is astonishing how little literature has to show of the life of the poor’: Ford Madox Ford’s The English Review and D. H. Lawrence’s Early Short FictionAnnalise Grice5. Rhythm and the Short StoryLouise Edensor6. For Love or Money: Popular 1920s Artists Stories in The Royal and The Strand Emma West7. Fiction for the Woman of To-Day: The Modern Short Story in EveAlice Wood8. Calling Parrots in Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Bowen: A Communion in The London Mercury Yui Kajita9. Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley in Good Housekeeping MagazineSaskia McCracken10. Virginia Woolf and the MagazinesDean Baldwin11. Horizon Magazine and the Wartime Short Story, 1940–45Ann-Marie Einhaus12. John Lehmann’s War Effort: The Penguin New Writing (1940–50) Tessa Thorniley13. Voicing ‘the native tang of idiom’: Lagan Magazine, 1943–46Tara McEvoy14. The Short Story in Wales (1937–49): ‘though we write in English, we are rooted in Wales’Daniel HughesBibliographyIndex