Overview
- Offers a complex appraisal of the significance of popular fiction by discussing an impressive range of genres
- Provides much-needed depth and context to readings of a range of bestselling twentieth- and twenty-first-century authors and texts.
- Brings together the key concepts and concerns of literary spatial studies and popular fiction studies.
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical approaches for interrogating the meaning of space and place across diverse genres, including crime, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Including topics such as classic English ghost stories, blockbuster Antarctic thrillers, prize-winning Montreal crime fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and China Miéville’s Bas-Lag, among others, this book brings together analyses of the real-and-imagined settings of some of the most widely read authors and texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how they have an immeasurable impact on our spatial awareness and imagination.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Lisa Fletcher is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her books include Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity (2008), and (with Ralph Crane) Cave: Nature and Culture (2015). Her current research focuses on twenty-first-century Australian popular fiction.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Fiction and Spatiality
Book Subtitle: Reading Genre Settings
Editors: Lisa Fletcher
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
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
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57141-0Published: 01 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95407-0Published: 29 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56902-8Published: 31 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 220
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, European Literature, North American Literature