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"The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, this book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language literatures. It considers issues of form and style alongside and often as part of, a broader discussion of publishing history and the cultural contexts in which the short story has flourished and continues to flourish. In its structure the book provides a chronological survey of the form, usefully grouping writers to show the development of the genre over time. Starting with Dickens and Kipling, the chapters cover key authors from the past two centuries and up to the present day. The focus on form, literary history and cultural context, together with the highlighting of the greatest short stories and their authors, make this a stimulating and informative overview for all students of English literature."

"Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relationto capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues thatin their personal relationships, gender roles, and sexual contacts, themodernist avant-garde epitomized the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural, and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but,in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterizing techniques, styles, and experiments,deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culturewhich the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range ofModernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein, and Barnes."