The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s [Hardcover]

This materialist study of the short storys development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssens provocative formation, the great divide of modernism.

List of Figures.  Introduction  1. 'The Providing of the Worlds Thought and Reading': The Short Story in the Strand  2. 'An Aristocracy of Talent': The Short Story in the Yellow Book  3. 'The Connoisseurs Comfort and the Dilettantes Delight': The Short Story in Black and White  Conclusion.  Appendix A: Short Stories in the Strand 1891-1900.  Appendix B: Short Stories in the Yellow Book 1894-1897.  Appendix C: Short Stories in Black and White 1891-1900.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index