Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xv
Part I: 1880–1945 1
Introduction 3
1 The British and Irish Short Story to 1945 5Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm
Topics and Genres 17
2 The Story of Colonial Adventure 19Mariadele Boccardi
3 Responses to War: 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 35Richard Greaves
4 Irish Short Fiction: 1880–1945 51Patrick Lonergan
5 The Detective and Crime Story: 1880–1945 65Jopi Nyman
6 The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880–1945 81Becky DiBiasio
7 Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945) 96Sabine Coelsch-Foisner
8 Rudyard Kipling’s Art of the Short Story 114David Malcolm
Reading Individual Authors and Texts 129
9 Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Bottle Imp,” “The Beach of Falesá,” and “Markheim” 131Michael Meyer
10 Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales 140David Grylls
11 Joseph Conrad: “The Secret Sharer” and “An Outpost of Progress” 149Christopher Thomas Cairney
12 The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro (“Saki”) 157Sandie Byrne
13 Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce’s Dubliners 165Richard Greaves
14 H.G. Wells’s Short Stories: “The Country of the Blind” and “The Door in the Wall” 174Sabine Coelsch-Foisner
15 D.H. Lawrence’s Short Stories: “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” 183Kathryn Miles
16 Virginia Woolf: “Kew Gardens” and “The Legacy” 193Stef Craps
17 Katherine Mansfield: “The Garden Party” and “Marriage à la Mode” 202Jennifer E. Dunn
18 Frank O’Connor: “Guests of the Nation” and “My Oedipus Complex” 211Greg Winston
19 The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty 221Shawn O’Hare
20 W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden Stories 227David Malcolm
21 Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover” and “Mysterious Kôr” 236Sarah Dillon
Part II: 1945–the Present 245
Introduction 247
22 The British and Irish Short Story: 1945–Present 249Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm
Topics and Genres 261
23 New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945 263Greg Winston
24 Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present 279James M. Lang
25 Scottish Short Stories (post 1945) 294Gavin Miller
26 Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay 308Michael Parker
27 The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust 330Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
28 Feminist Voices: Women’s Short Fiction after 1945 342Michael Meyer
29 British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories 356Brett Josef Grubisic
30 Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction 372Mitchell R. Lewis
31 Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945 384Günther Jarfe
Reading Individual Authors and Texts 399
32 The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross 401David Malcolm
33 Alan Sillitoe: “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” 409Michael Parker
34 The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor 416Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr
35 The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett 423Andrzej Ga̧siorek
36 Edna O’Brien: “A Rose in the Heart of New York” 431Sinéad Mooney
37 Doris Lessing: African Stories 440Don Adams
38 The Desire for Clarity: Seán O’Faoláin’s “Lovers of the Lake” 448Paul Delaney
39 The Short Stories of Muriel Spark 456Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr
40 Jean Rhys: “Let Them Call It Jazz” 464Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
41 George Mackay Brown: “Witch,” “Master Halcrow, Priest,” “A Time to Keep,” and “The Tarn and the Rosary” 472Gavin Miller
42 William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art 480John Kenny
43 John McGahern: Nightlines 488Stanley van der Ziel
44 The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty’s “Walking the Dog” 498Jerzy Jarniewicz
45 Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire – Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism 507Madelena Gonzalez
46 J.G. Ballard: Psychopathology, Apocalypse, and the Media Landscape 516Mitchell R. Lewis
47 The Short Stories of Benjamin Okri 524Wolfgang Görtschacher
48 James Kelman: Greyhound for Breakfast 532Peter Clandfield
49 Hanif Kureishi: Love in a Blue Time 541Patrick Lonergan
Index 550