Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939


Book Description

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


Book Description

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.







The Short Story and the First World War


Book Description

Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.