Arranging Stories: Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers

by Heather A. Fox

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149684050X
• ISBN13: 9781496840509
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"