Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880û1950

by Baldwin,Dean

• ISBN13: 9781848932289
• ISBN10: 1848932286
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. These conditions actually helped to disseminate the fiction of nearly all the major and minor writers of the period, from Hardy and Conrad to H E Bates and V S Pritchett. He argues that contrary to Modernists' claims that financial demands of middlebrow magazines prevented the genre developing, they actually helped to improve authors' writing, particularly the work of Henry James and D H Lawrence.