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

"Companion to the British and Irish Short Story is an instructive and engaging guide, covering a broad range of interest in fiction from schoolwork to academic research." (<i>Reference Reviews</i>, April 2009)

<P><B>Cheryl Alexander Malcolm</B> is Associate Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture, English Institute, University of Gdansk, Poland</P> <P><B>David Malcolm</B> is Professor and Chair, Department of Literary Studies, English Institute, University of Gdansk, Poland

<p><b>A COMPANION TO THE BRITISH AND RISH SHORT STORY</b> <P><I>A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story </I>chronicles the development of this important literary form in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Part I covers the years up to 1945 and examines the short fiction that emerged around such themes as imperial adventures, responses to war, and detective and crime stories. Authors covered in this period include Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Liam O’Flaherty, and Elizabeth Bowen. Part II reflects the range of themes, and richer diversity of authorship, that developed during the postwar years, including feminist writings, gay and lesbian fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and short stories by Asian and Afro-Caribbean writers. Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, and Ben Okri, are just some of the authors discussed in these chapters. <P>Incorporating a wide range of approaches, <I>A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story</I> captures the astonishing range of modern short fiction produced in Britain and Ireland from the end of the nineteenth century.

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