You give me fever: Health, happiness and the inherent vitality of the short story

Kirsty Gunn

doi:10.1386/fict_00056_2

You give me fever: Health, happiness and the inherent vitality of the short story

Kirsty Gunn (Lead / Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Award-winning fiction writer Kirsty Gunn reflects on the current climate of short-story publishing in the United Kingdom, and considers the way the rhetoric of sickness and health has become attached to discussions of the form.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	125-130
Number of pages	6
Journal	Short Fiction in Theory and Practice
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00056_2
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2022

Keywords

anthologies
formal definition
illness and fiction
Katherine Mansfield
short-story collections
short-story criticism
short-story publishing
Virginia Woolf

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Literature and Literary Theory
Cultural Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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You give me fever: Health, happiness and the inherent vitality of the short story

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