6 Collections, Cycles and Sequences

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Historicising the Short Story
7. 1 Transnationalism and the Transatlantic Short Story 9
8. 2 The Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies 24
9. 3 Impressionism and the Short Story 40
10. 4 Writers on the Short Story: 1950–present 56
11. Part II: Publishing the Short Story
12. 5 The Short Story and the ‘Little Magazine’ 75
13. 6 Collections, Cycles and Sequences 93
14. 7 The Short Story Anthology 108
15. 8 The Short Story and Digital Media 125
16. Part III: Forms of the Short Story
17. 9 Short-Short Fiction 147
18. 10 The Weird Tale 160
19. 11 The Horror Story 175
20. 12 Experimental Short Stories 193
21. 13 The War Story 211
22. Part IV: Placing the Short Story
23. 14 Regionalism and the Short Story 227
24. 15 The Short Story and the City 242
25. 16 The Short Story in Suburbia 256
26. 17 The Short Story and the Environment 272
27. Part V: Identity and the Short Story
28. 18 Gender and Genre in the Short Story 293
29. 19 Diaspora and the Short Story 313
30. 20 The Queer Short Story 328
31. 21 Disability and the Short Story 346
32. Index of Short Story Titles 363
33. General Index 369