The Bloomsbury introduction to popular fiction
Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commercial fiction from the 19th century to today, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction includes...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781441155672 9781441134318 |
| Physical Description | 1 online zdroj (xv, 326 stran) |
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Table of Contents:
- The Victorian context: serialization, circulation, genres; Twentieth-century popular: history, theory and context; More than a love story: the complexities of the popular romance; 'The lads' own paper': male confessional literature and the legacy of adventure; Science fiction: the sense of wonder; Rules are meant to be broken: twentieth- and twenty-first-century crime writing; Disturbance, disorder, destruction, disease: horror fiction today; Alternative worlds: popular fiction (not only) for children; The coming of age graphic narratives; H. G. Wells, elitism and popular fiction; John Buchan and the spy thriller; Manipulating popularity: a case study of Ian Fleming's James Bond series; Subverting the romance: the fiction of Sarah Waters; The hard-boiled detective: Dashiell Hammett; Violent pleasures: war as entertainment; Popular vampires: the Twilight effect; Rewriting popular classics as popular fiction: Jane Austen, zombies, sex and vampires; The worlds of learning and writing: a writer's perspective; The future of the popular.