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The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story

The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story Long’s contribution, for example, is counter-balanced in the book by passages of Languages and elliptical phrases and obscure terminology, that lead to tendentious (and, at times, tedious) literature conclusions. Historians and sociologists might quibble with some of the evidence used, and interpretations made, but this is a survey of RR 2017/129 literary responses to the phenomenon as used in the stories. There are also errors that have The Cambridge Companion to the slipped through the editing process. An entry for English Short Story 1868 is placed after 1876 in the Chronology Ann-Marie Einhaus (p. xvi) and a sentence on p. 137 is rendered Cambridge University Press meaningless by garbled phrasing. The work is wide-ranging in the use of source Cambridge material, with websites now becoming a standard reference in citations, but, as with the xxiii  232 pp. internet, the danger of obsolescence, for digital ISBN 978 1 107 08417 9 (hbck); ISBN 978 1 107 44601 4 media, might give the publication a “dated” feel (pbck); ISBN 978 1 316 02878 0 (e-book) in the near future, to the younger generation of literary scholars. £54.99 $94.99 (hbck); £18.99 $29.99 (pbck); $24 (e-book) Geoffrey Hunt Cambridge Companions to Literature Freelance Reviewer, London, UK Keywords English literature, Fiction Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2017-0042 RR 2017/130 This Companion deals with the origins and development of the short story “written in the The Cambridge Companion to the English language outside of north America” Literature of the American West (p. 7). Fourteen chapters cover the Contexts, Edited by Steven Frye Periods and Genres of the medium. All of them Cambridge University Press are extensively footnoted. An introduction by the Editor (who contributes a chapter), a Guide to Cambridge Further Reading and a Chronology complete the contents. xxx  255 pp. Part I, Contexts, covers the contemporary ISBN 978 1 107 09537 3 (hbck); ISBN 978 1 107 47927 2 scene (and problems) of short story publishing, (pbck); ISBN 978 1 316 57870 4 (e-book) in Britain today, in Paul March Russell’s contribution. Other chapters deal with social £54.99 $89.99 (hbck); £18.99 $29.99 (pbck); $24 (e-book) realism, the (British) Empire in “short fiction” Cambridge Companions to Literature (the phrase is used frequently in the book) and Keywords Literature, United States of America the role of “space” in literature. In Part II, Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2017-0026 Periods, the five chapters deal with the short story developments that occurred during the This book treats the word literature in the Romantic and Victorian eras, and the twentieth broadest terms and it deals with it in a way that century. Victoria Stewart’s Mid-Twentieth- relates to works both about the American West Century Stories is informative about the medium and/or from the West of America. Thus, it in Britain during the Second World War. Maebh includes comment upon writings in the form of Long’s article brings the medium into the digital letters, essays, sketches, travelogues, newspaper age. For those who wish to know which authors articles, novels, poetry and drama. Even graphic or stories to read, Part III Genres provides novels and movies come briefly within its coverage of comic, detective, gothic and British purview. science fiction (the latter chapter, by Andrew Since most of the chapters are historical Butler, contains numerous listings of authors). studies, the meaning of the term “west” also has Although the volume is presented as an a range of meanings. Within the geography and introductory overview of the subject, the density history of the North American continent, the of the prose, at times, makes some of the term has represented the beyond, the frontier, chapters hard to follow. The animated and the wilderness and the edge, the boundary of informative condemnation of pornography in civilisation as the European diaspora moved across the landscape, mainly in an east to west direction but also, on occasion, from north to Reference Reviews south and even, to a lesser extent, like a Volume 31 · Number 5 · 2017 · pp. 18 –22 © Emerald Publishing Limited · ISSN 0950-4125 backwash, from west to east. The literature of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Reference Reviews Emerald Publishing

The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story

Hunt, Geoffrey
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Long’s contribution, for example, is counter-balanced in the book by passages of Languages and elliptical phrases and obscure terminology, that lead to tendentious (and, at times, tedious) literature conclusions. Historians and sociologists might quibble with some of the evidence used, and interpretations made, but this is a survey of RR 2017/129 literary responses to the phenomenon as used in the stories. There are also errors that have The Cambridge Companion to the slipped through the editing process. An entry for English Short Story 1868 is placed after 1876 in the Chronology Ann-Marie Einhaus (p. xvi) and a sentence on p. 137 is rendered Cambridge University Press meaningless by garbled phrasing. The work is wide-ranging in the use of source Cambridge material, with websites now becoming a standard reference in citations, but, as with the xxiii  232 pp. internet, the danger of obsolescence, for digital ISBN 978 1 107 08417 9 (hbck); ISBN 978 1 107 44601 4 media, might give the publication a “dated” feel (pbck); ISBN 978 1 316 02878 0 (e-book) in the near future, to the younger generation of literary scholars. £54.99 $94.99 (hbck); £18.99 $29.99 (pbck); $24 (e-book) Geoffrey Hunt Cambridge Companions to Literature Freelance Reviewer, London, UK Keywords English literature, Fiction Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2017-0042 RR 2017/130 This Companion deals with the origins and development of the short story “written in the The Cambridge Companion to the English language outside of north America” Literature of the American West (p. 7). Fourteen chapters cover the Contexts, Edited by Steven Frye Periods and Genres of the medium. All of them Cambridge University Press are extensively footnoted. An introduction by the Editor (who contributes a chapter), a Guide to Cambridge Further Reading and a Chronology complete the contents. xxx  255 pp. Part I, Contexts, covers the contemporary ISBN 978 1 107 09537 3 (hbck); ISBN 978 1 107 47927 2 scene (and problems) of short story publishing, (pbck); ISBN 978 1 316 57870 4 (e-book) in Britain today, in Paul March Russell’s contribution. Other chapters deal with social £54.99 $89.99 (hbck); £18.99 $29.99 (pbck); $24 (e-book) realism, the (British) Empire in “short fiction” Cambridge Companions to Literature (the phrase is used frequently in the book) and Keywords Literature, United States of America the role of “space” in literature. In Part II, Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2017-0026 Periods, the five chapters deal with the short story developments that occurred during the This book treats the word literature in the Romantic and Victorian eras, and the twentieth broadest terms and it deals with it in a way that century. Victoria Stewart’s Mid-Twentieth- relates to works both about the American West Century Stories is informative about the medium and/or from the West of America. Thus, it in Britain during the Second World War. Maebh includes comment upon writings in the form of Long’s article brings the medium into the digital letters, essays, sketches, travelogues, newspaper age. For those who wish to know which authors articles, novels, poetry and drama. Even graphic or stories to read, Part III Genres provides novels and movies come briefly within its coverage of comic, detective, gothic and British purview. science fiction (the latter chapter, by Andrew Since most of the chapters are historical Butler, contains numerous listings of authors). studies, the meaning of the term “west” also has Although the volume is presented as an a range of meanings. Within the geography and introductory overview of the subject, the density history of the North American continent, the of the prose, at times, makes some of the term has represented the beyond, the frontier, chapters hard to follow. The animated and the wilderness and the edge, the boundary of informative condemnation of pornography in civilisation as the European diaspora moved across the landscape, mainly in an east to west direction but also, on occasion, from north to Reference Reviews south and even, to a lesser extent, like a Volume 31 · Number 5 · 2017 · pp. 18 –22 © Emerald Publishing Limited · ISSN 0950-4125 backwash, from west to east. The literature of

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