My research centres on the history and development of the short story in British, Irish and North American literatures. My work ranges across key historical periods and national contexts in which the short story has flourished, from the early 19th century to the present day, with a focus on the literary periodical as the principal venue of publication for short fiction in its many forms. I have published extensively on the short story and modernism, but my interests extend from the Romantic period (James Hogg and the periodical press) to contemporary writers such as the Nobel Laureate Alice Munro. I am currently researching the role of short fiction in the Cold War Anglo-American cultural affairs magazine Encounter (1953-1990), as part of a wider project on the short story in British literary periodicals between 1940 and 1990.
James Hogg: Contributions to International Periodicals
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Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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RLF Fellowship Programme
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Funded by: Royal Literary Fund
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Brander Matthews and the rise of the short story
PI: Dr Adrian Hunter
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Scholarly Edition
James Hogg: Contributions to English, Irish, and American Periodicals
Hunter A (ed.) (2020) James Hogg: Contributions to English, Irish, and American Periodicals, Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-contributions-to-english-irish-and-american-periodicals.html
Article
Kipling's Captains Courageous and the Anglo-Indian in America
Hunter A (2019) Kipling's Captains Courageous and the Anglo-Indian in America. English Literature in Transition, 62 (1), pp. 3-27. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710486
Edited Book
The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English
Delaney P & Hunter A (eds.) (2018) The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English. Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-short-story-in-english.html
Book Chapter
The Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies
Hunter A (2018) The Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies. In: Delaney P & Hunter A (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English. Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 24-39. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-short-story-in-english.html
Book Chapter
Hunter A (2016) The Rise of Short Fiction. In: Marcus L, Mendelssohn M & Shepherd-Barr K (eds.) Late Victorian into Modern. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 204-217. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/late-victorian-into-modern-9780198704393?q=Exploring%20Studio%20Materials:%20Teaching%20Creative%20Art%20Making%20to%20Children/%20Mary%20Hafeli〈=en&cc=gb
Edited Proceedings
If Scotland.... Conjecturing 2014
Hames S & Hunter A (eds.) (2016) If Scotland.... Conjecturing 2014. Journal of Scottish Thought, Volume 8. If Scotland: Posting 2014, 23.08.2014-24.08.2014. University of Stirling: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen. https://www.store.abdn.ac.uk/product-catalogue/publications/research-institute-of-irish-and-scottish-studies/journal-of-scottish-thought-volume-8
Book Chapter
Hunter A (2016) Novel, Novella, Short Story. In: Boxall P & Cheyette B (eds.) The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940. Oxford History of the Novel in English, 7. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 272-287. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198749394.do
Article
Afterword: Modernism, Formalism, and the 'Edwardian bypass'
Hunter A (2015) Afterword: Modernism, Formalism, and the 'Edwardian bypass'. Journal of the Short Story in English, 64, pp. 155-167. https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1574
Book Review
Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective
Hunter A (2014) Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective. Review of:
Veronica Patea (Ed.), Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2012, 346 pp., ISBN 978 9-042-03564-5. European Journal of English Studies, 18 (2), pp. 224-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2014.895094
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Arthur Morrison and the Tyranny of Sentimental Charity
Hunter A (2013) Arthur Morrison and the Tyranny of Sentimental Charity. English Literature in Transition, 56 (3), pp. 292-312. http://www.eltpress.org/PDFs/56_3_Contents.pdf
Book Chapter
The Short Story and the Difficulty of Modernism
Hunter A (2012) The Short Story and the Difficulty of Modernism. In: Sacido & J (eds.) Modernism, Postmodernism and the Short Story in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 29-46. http://www.rodopi.nl/ntalpha.asp?BookId=PMS+48&type=new&letter=R
Book Review
Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific: Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession
Hunter A (2011) Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific: Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession. Review of:
By Roslyn Jolly,Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, Pp. xii, 193. ISBN: 9780754661955.. Scottish Historical Review, 90 (229), pp. 159-161. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2011.0020
Article
Taking possession: Alice Munro's "A Wilderness Station" and James Hogg's Justified Sinner
Hunter A (2010) Taking possession: Alice Munro's "A Wilderness Station" and James Hogg's Justified Sinner. Studies in Canadian Literature, 35 (2), pp. 114-128. http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/18326
Book Chapter
Hunter A (2010) Kelman and the Short Story. In: Hames S (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 42-52. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748639649
Book Review
Tim Killick, British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century
Hunter A (2009) Tim Killick, British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century. Review of: British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century, Tim Killick, Ashgate: Aldershot and Burlington, 2008, 193pp, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6413-0. Studies in Hogg and His World, (20), pp. 144-147.
Book Review
Alexander Pushkin: The Captain's Daughter
Hunter A (2009) Alexander Pushkin: The Captain's Daughter. Review of: Alexander Pushkin: The Captain's Daughter. Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler. London: Hesperus, 2007, Pp. xvii+130. ISBN 978-1843911548. Translation and Literature, 18 (1), pp. 128-130. https://doi.org/10.3366/E0968136108000460
Book Review
Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock
Hunter A (2007) Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock. Review of: The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro, London: Chatto & Windus, 2006, 352pp. ISBN 9780701179892. Studies in Hogg and His World, (18), pp. 108-112.
Authored Book
The Cambridge Introduction to the English Short Story
Hunter A (2007) The Cambridge Introduction to the English Short Story. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521681124&ss=exc
Article
The 'custom' of fiction: Virginia Woolf, the short story, and the Hogarth Press
Hunter A (2007) The 'custom' of fiction: Virginia Woolf, the short story, and the Hogarth Press. English, 56 (215), pp. 147-169. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/56.215.147
Edited Book
Hunter A (ed.) (2006) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Broadview Editions. Ontario: Broadview Press. https://www.broadviewpress.com/product.php?productid=794&cat=0&page=1
Book Review
Karl Miller, Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg
Hunter A (2005) Karl Miller, Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg. Review of: Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg, Karl Miller, New York: Faber and Faber, 2003, 416pp, ISBN 978-0571218172. Studies in Hogg and His World, (16), pp. 173-175.
Book Review
Anton Chekhov: About Love and Other Stories
Hunter A (2005) Anton Chekhov: About Love and Other Stories. Review of: Anton Chekhov: About Love and Other Stories. Translated by Rosamund Bartlett. (World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 Pp. xxxiv + 211. ISBN 978-0199536689. Translation and Literature, 14 (2), pp. 262-266. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2005.14.2.262
Article
Story into history: Alice Munro's minor literature
Hunter A (2004) Story into history: Alice Munro's minor literature. English, 53 (207), pp. 219-238. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/53.207.219
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Constance Garnett's Chekhov and the Modernist Short Story
Hunter A (2003) Constance Garnett's Chekhov and the Modernist Short Story. Translation and Literature, 12 (1), pp. 69-87. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2003.12.1.69
Article
Obscured Hurts: The Civil War Writing of Henry James and Ambrose Bierce
Hunter A (2002) Obscured Hurts: The Civil War Writing of Henry James and Ambrose Bierce. War Literature and the Arts, 14 (1&2), pp. 280-292. http://wlajournal.com/14_1-2/280-292hunter.pdf
Article
Beckett and the Joycean short story
Hunter A (2001) Beckett and the Joycean short story. Essays in Criticism, 51 (2), pp. 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1093/eic/51.2.230
Edited Book
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Hunter A (ed.) (2001) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Broadview Editions. Ontario: Broadview Press. https://www.broadviewpress.com/product.php?productid=242