Prose Study Coursework: five Victorian short stories

Examine the settings the writers have chosen in 'The Man with the Twisted Lip', 'The Red Room', 'The Signalman', Napoleon and the Spectre', and 'The Old Nurse's Story'. How do the effects achieved by the writers contribute to the atmosphere of the stories?

Edgar Allan Poe was said to be the first to define a set of rules for short stories.

These were: "- It must create a single impression
- It should be capable of being read at a single setting
- Not a word must be irrelevant, for every word must contribute to the predesigned - total effect of the author
- Even the opening sentence must initiate this predesigned effect and be developed - unswervingly through the story
- When the author achieves the climax, the story should end, with no further - explanation or secondary effects
- Only characters that are absolutely essential to the predesigned effect should be - introduced, and......

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