The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Seán O'Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s (2014), and editor of Reading Colm Tóibín (2008) and William Trevor: Revaluations, with Michael Parker (2013).
Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (2007), and of several articles and chapters on British and North American short fiction. He is currently editing a volume of James Hogg's contributions to international periodicals for the definitive Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of Hogg's work, also published by Edinburgh University Press.