Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings: 7 (Mhra Jewelled Tortoise) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781889651 ISBN 13: 9781781889657

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020

Synopsis

Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically significant contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain. His unexplained death in Paris at the age of 26 cut short a highly promising literary career. 

The striking realism of Crackanthorpe's first collection of short stories, Wreckage (1893), followed by the psychologically complex Sentimental Studies and posthumous Last Studies (1896), together with the prose poems of Vignettes (1896), were much admired by Henry James and his contemporaries, Dowson, Johnson and Symons, as the work of a leading, innovative writer of critical Decadence.  Indeed his stories combine an unrelenting realism with a conscious aestheticizing of their often troubling, bleak subject matter.

As co-editor of the short-lived periodical, The Albermarle and campaigning literary journalist, Crackanthorpe was a key critical participant in central literary and artistic debates of the early 1890s:  'facts' versus 'effects' in literature; the efficacy of realism/naturalism; questions of taste, 'reticence' and the handling of controversial subject matter.

This fully annotated, critical text comprises the most extensive collection to date of Crackanthorpe's writing. As well as uncollected stories, the volume includes a short story never previously published in book form. This edition also contains a selection of Crackanthorpe's critical writings and a bibliographical survey of his work. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781889651
• ISBN 13: 9781781889657
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Greenslade William, Ettorre Emanuela