The Cambridge history of the English short story
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2134808
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- ISBN
- 9781107167421
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Cambridge History of the English Short Story, a 260,000-word volume of 35 chapters, aims to offer a new account of the Anglophone short story, excluding the American tradition, from the origins of printed short fiction through to the digital age. The editor undertook the underpinning primary research to determine the shape of the entire volume over a three-year period (producing a 25,000-word proposal); this research was also used to inform the introduction. The editor also recruited contributors, developed themes and assigned chapters, and contributed a 16-page chapter as well as the 15-page introduction.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- As sole editor of the Cambridge History of the English Short Story, Head undertook the foundational research for the whole volume, setting the aim of addressing the often marginalised and misapprehended form of the short story, establishing the outline argument and coverage for every chapter, and reading and selecting the authors for inclusion. The distillation of this preparatory work resulted in a proposal of 25,000 words, the product of more than a year of research. He contributed an ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-15) and a chapter on ‘The Rural Tradition in the English Short Story’ (pp. 252-268) – 14,000 words in total. Over the final three years of the project he shaped and refined the argument of each chapter, in collaboration with the individual authors, with reference to his original conception of the History.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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