This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. The final essay addresses the ways our contemporary creative-writing classes are stifling the voices of emerging young female authors. The collection includes an extensive five-part bibliography.

Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.

Profiles more than thirty American short-story writers from the period 1880-1910, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

Short stories by such authors as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Wely and many others to yr., 1974.

Looks a the life and works of forty-nine Asian American short story writers.

Lists addresses and information on contacts, pay rates, and submission requirements, and includes essays on the craft of writing.

Lists addresses and information on contacts, pay rates, and submission requirements, and includes essays on the craft of writing.

In recent years what is understood as literature has undergone thorough scrutiny by diverse branches of literary and cultural criticism. Literary critics have been with us since the first author put pen to paper, and at any one time not all of them have been in agreement about critical and/or cultural approaches and theories. Criticism is in part an epistemological exercise in hermeneutics. Newer are the perspectives that have been brought to bear on traditional aspects of the literary canon and the incorporation into this body of ethnic or religious minorities and women.

"This anthology collects all of the short stories published in Opportunity by African American women during the magazine's 25 years of publication. It includes works by both well-known authors (Zora Neale Hurston, Marita Bonner) and more. It also includes an introduction which contextualizes the short stories historically in light of the overall development of African American writing"--Provided by publisher.