A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story

“It is a commonplace of literary studies that the British short story has been largely neglected by scholarship”, claim editors Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm. This companion guide is therefore a useful and concise introduction to an aspect of British and Irish literature that had been left in the shadow of the novel for over one hundred years. Encouraged and actively read in Ireland yet ignored and underdeveloped in Britain, the history of short fiction since its popular inception in the high Victorian era is erratic and marginal; only in recent times have academics begun to consider the literary...