Name: New Directions in Popular Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-137-52346-4

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Ken Gelder⁰

Ken Gelder
1. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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Represents the extremely diverse work being done across the broad spectrum of popular genres, from science fiction and fantasy to erotic fiction and crime fiction
Contributors are geographically diverse and range from early career researchers to well-known scholars in the field
Examines global popular fictions, where many other books on popular fiction are Anglocentric

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiii

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The Fields of Popular Fiction
- Ken Gelder
Pages 1-19
Histories of Popular Genres
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 21-21
  
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2. Love in the Time of Finance: Eliza Haywood and the Rise of the Scenic Novel
  
  Joe Hughes
  
  Pages 23-41
3. Colonial Australian Detectives, Character Type and the Colonial Economy
  
  Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver
  
  Pages 43-66
4. ‘The Floodgates of Inkland were Opened’: Aestheticising the Whitechapel Murders
  
  Grace Moore
  
  Pages 67-86
5. Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890–1939
  
  Hsu-Ming Teo
  
  Pages 87-110
6. ‘The Future of our Delicate Network of Empire’: The Riddle of the Sands and the Birth of the British Spy Thriller
  
  Merrick Burrow
  
  Pages 111-133
7. Did Indians Read Dime Novels?: Re-Indigenising the Western at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  
  Christine Bold
  
  Pages 135-156
8. Unno Jūza and the Uses of Science in Prewar Japanese Popular Fiction
  
  Seth Jacobowitz
  
  Pages 157-175
9. The New Weird
  
  Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
  
  Pages 177-199
10. From Middle Earth to Westeros: Medievalism, Proliferation and Paratextuality
  
  Kim Wilkins
  
  Pages 201-221
11. Denise Mina’s Garnethill Trilogy: Feminist Crime Fiction at the Millennium
  
  Sabine Vanacker
  
  Pages 223-238
12. Popular Fiction in Québec: National Identity and ‘American’ Genres
  
  Amy J. Ransom
  
  Pages 239-260
13. Glass and Game: The Speculative Girl Hero
  
  Catherine Driscoll, Alexandra Heatwole
  
  Pages 261-283
Authors, Distribution, (Re)Production
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 285-285
  
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2. Mediating Popular Fictions: From the Magic Lantern to the Cinematograph
  
  Helen Groth
  
  Pages 287-307
3. ‘The Power of Her Pen’: Marie Corelli, Authorial Identity and Literary Value
  
  Kirsten MacLeod
  
  Pages 309-326
4. Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage
  
  Catherine Wynne
  
  Pages 327-348
5. Beyond the Antipodes: Australian Popular Fiction in Transnational Networks
  
  David Carter
  
  Pages 349-370

About this book

This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British spy thriller, Japanese mysteries, the 'new weird', fantasy, girl hero action novels and Quebecois science fiction. It also examines the production, reproduction and distribution of popular fiction as it carves out space for itself in transnational marketplaces and across different media entertainment systems; and it discusses the careers of popular authors and the various investments in popular fiction by readers and fans. This book will be indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in this prolific but highly distinctive literary field.

Keywords

Genre
Author
Market
Entertainment
Transnational

Editors and Affiliations

University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Ken Gelder

About the editor

Ken Gelder is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include Reading the Vampire (1994), Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998, with Jane M. Jacobs), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007) and New Vampire Cinema (2012).

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Book Title: New Directions in Popular Fiction
Book Subtitle: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction
Editors: Ken Gelder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52345-7Published: 02 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52346-4Published: 21 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 474
Topics: Fiction, Contemporary Literature, Literary History

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

Front Matter

Histories of Popular Genres

Front Matter

Authors, Distribution, (Re)Production

Front Matter

About this book

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

About the editor

Bibliographic Information

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