Title
Arranging stories : framing social commentary in short story collections by Southern women writers
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Department
English and Theatre
Description
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern white women writers increased dramatically, bolstered by readers' demands for southern stories in northern periodicals. Confined by magazine requirements and social expectations, writers often relied on regional settings and tropes to attract publishers and readers before publishing work in a collection. Selecting and ordering magazine stories for these collections was not arbitrary or dictated by editors, despite a male-dominated publishing industry. Instead, it allowed writers to privilege stories, or to contextualize a story by its proximity to other tales, as a form of social commentary.
ISBN
9781496840516
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Keywords
Short story, American literature, Women authors, Criticism, interpretation, Literary criticism, Southern States
Disciplines
American Literature | English Language and Literature | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Fox, Heather A., "Arranging stories : framing social commentary in short story collections by Southern women writers" (2022). EKU Faculty and Staff Books Gallery. 34.
https://encompass.eku.edu/fs_books/34
