This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century

The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Stor

This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form fro

This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the orig