Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939
Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939

Author: Bashir Abu-Manneh

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1611493528

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Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal theNew Statesman. This book argues that New Statesman fiction advances a strong realist preoccupation with ordinary, everyday life, and shows how British domestic concerns have a strong hold on the working-class and lower-middle-class imaginative output of this period.

Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880–1950
Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880–1950

Author: Dean Baldwin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1317321936

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The short story was a commercial phenomenon which took off in the late nineteenth century and lasted through to the rise of television and film. Baldwin uses a wide variety of sources to show how economic factors helped to dictate how and what a wide variety of authors wrote.