The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories
Author: Dennis Denisoff
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2004-05-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1551113562

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories beautifully demonstrates the astonishing variety and ingenuity of Victorian short stories. This collection brings together works focused on a wide range of popular Victorian subjects in many different styles and forms (including comic, gothic, fantasy, adventure, and colonial works; science fiction; children’s tales; New Woman writing; Irish yarns; stories originally published in popular periodicals; and travel stories). Both well-known and lesser-known authors are included, and both men and women are well represented. This anthology includes twenty-six annotated stories, a general introduction that discusses the history of the genre’s development in relation to key socio-political issues of the Victorian era, and suggestions for secondary readings. It also includes an intriguing selection of Victorian writings on the genre by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Frederick Wedmore, and Laura Marholm Hansson.

The Victorian Short Story

The Victorian Short Story
Author: Harold Orel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1986-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521258995

Examines the development of the Victorian short story, which by the 1890s had become the most popular literary product of the late nineteenth century.

Victorian Short Stories

Victorian Short Stories
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1776677951

As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, attitudes about love, marriage, and gender roles began to undergo a radical shift. The five stories collected in this volume, written by literary luminaries such as Henry James, Walter Besant, and Thomas Hardy, expertly capture this period of transition.

Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories

Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories
Author: Eric Millen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2018-05-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719092463

"Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories" contains 45 short stories of horror (chapter sections: Lost Love, Haunted, Monsters, From The Beyond). Each tale of terror is illustrated with a painting of frightening terror! All set in a time when the supernatural and the unknown ruled the land.

The British Short Story

The British Short Story
Author: Emma Liggins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230300804

The short story remains a crucial - if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear, jargon-free way.

Victorian Love Stories

Victorian Love Stories
Author: Kate Flint
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1996
Genre: English fiction
ISBN:

Thirty-two stories, mostly dating from the 1880s and later, originally published in magazines.

The Victorian Art of Fiction

The Victorian Art of Fiction
Author: Rohan Maitzen
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2009-06-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 155111769X

The Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form, such as characterization, plot construction, and narration; and questions about the morality of fiction. The editor discusses where Victorian writing on the novel has been placed in accounts of the history of criticism and then suggests some reasons for reconsidering this conventional evaluation. Among the featured essayists and critics are John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, George Henry Lewes, Leslie Stephen, Anthony Trollope, and Robert Louis Stevenson; the classic essays include George Eliot’s “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” and Henry James’s “The Art of Fiction.”

Victorian Publishing

Victorian Publishing
Author: Alexis Weedon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351875868

Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain. Chapters explore the significance of the export trade to the colonies and the rising importance of towns outside London as centres of publishing; the influence of technological change in increasing the variety and quantity of books; and how the business practice of literary publishing developed to expand the market for British and American authors. The book takes examples from the purchase and sale of popular fiction by Ouida, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ewing, and canonical authors such as George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Mark Twain. Consideration of the unique demands of the educational market complements the focus on fiction, as readers, arithmetic books, music, geography, science textbooks, and Greek and Latin classics became a staple for an increasing number of publishing houses wishing to spread the risk of novel publication.

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2003
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 0192804472

Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.