Introduction Problems in defining a genre -- William Carleton: elements of the folk tradition -- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: developing the horror tale -- Charles Dickens: establishing rapport with the public -- Anthony Trollope: baking tarts for readers of periodicals -- Thomas Hardy: an older tradition of narrative -- Robert Louis Stevenson: many problems, some successes -- Rudyard Kipling: the Anglo-Indian stories -- Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells: different concepts of a short story -- Epilogue The triumph of a genre
