Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s

This materialist study of the short story's development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssen's provocative formation, the "great divide" of modernism.

List of contents

List of Figures. Introduction 1. 'The Providing of the World’s Thought and Reading': The Short Story in the Strand 2. 'An Aristocracy of Talent': The Short Story in the Yellow Book 3. 'The Connoisseur’s Comfort and the Dilettante’s Delight': The Short Story in Black and White Conclusion. Appendix A: Short Stories in the Strand 1891-1900. Appendix B: Short Stories in the Yellow Book 1894-1897. Appendix C: Short Stories in Black and White 1891-1900. Notes. Bibliography. Index

About the author

Winnie Chan

Product details

• Authors: Winnie Chan, Chan Winnie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781138011755
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01175-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism