Kasia Boddy teaches in the English Department at University College London. She is the author of Boxing: A Cultural History (2008) and numerous articles on American literature, and the co-editor of three anthologies.
This impeccably researched account is accomplished in both a narrow and wider reading of the short story and its history. Sensitive to the nuances of meaning and effect in individual short stories, it is equally perceptive in its analysis of the broader historical and literary/cultural trends which influence short fiction, and which, in turn it has influenced... This is an invaluable introduction to this fertile period in American literature. Routledge ABES This impeccably researched account is accomplished in both a narrow and wider reading of the short story and its history. Sensitive to the nuances of meaning and effect in individual short stories, it is equally perceptive in its analysis of the broader historical and literary/cultural trends which influence short fiction, and which, in turn it has influenced... This is an invaluable introduction to this fertile period in American literature.