Michelle Ryan-Sautour, Gérald Préher, Linda Collinge-Germain, General Foreword

Part One: Affect and the Short Story and Cycle

• Robert M. Luscher, Foreword to Special Section
• Paul Ardoin and Fiona McWilliam, Introduction: On the Stickiness of the Short Story and the Cycle
• Daniel Davis Wood, To See the Lives of Others Through the Eyes of God: The Affectivity of Literary Aesthetics in the Short Stories of Edward P. Jones
• Rachel Lister, “Preposterous Adventures”: Affective Encounters in the Short Story Cycle
• Rebecca Cross, Yearning, Frustration, and Fulfillment: The Return Story in Olive Kitteridge and Kissing in Manhattan
• Fiona McWilliam, “The Young and Romantic Will Like It”: The Abolitionist Short Stories of Lydia Maria Child
• Dennis Meyhoff Brink, Affective Atmospheres in the House of Usher
• Kuo Chia-chen, The Affectivity of Music in Virginia Woolf’s “The String Quartet”
• Rob Welch, Reading Structures of Feeling in Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel”
• Roundtable: Affect, the Short Story, and the Cycle
  
• Contributors’ Notes Special Section 215

Part Two: General Section

• Donna White, Is There a Doctor in the House? Rudyard Kipling’s Private Message to Arthur Conan Doyle in “The House Surgeon”
• Daniela Janes, Liminality and the Epiphanic Spectrum in Joyce’s Dubliners and Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag
• Thomas O’Grady, The Geography of the Imagination: Benedict Kiely’s Dubliners
• Timothy K. Nixon, Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “Tony’s Wife”
• Brian Jansen, “Betch you’ bootsh!”: Jewish Humour, Jewish Identity, and Yiddish Literary Traditions in Abraham Cahan’s Yekl
• Yair Solan, Housebreakers and Peeping Toms: Voyeurism in John Cheever’s Early Suburban Stories
  
• Contributors’ Notes General Section