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Popular Fiction and Social Change

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Christopher Pawling

    1. Department of Communication Studies, Sheffield City Polytechnic, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Popular Fiction: Ideology or Utopia?

    • Christopher Pawling
    Pages 1-19

  3. Science Fiction and the Crisis of the Educated Middle Class

    • Adrian Mellor
    Pages 20-49

  4. Contemporary Futures: The Analysis of Science Fiction

    • Martin Jordin
    Pages 50-75

  5. Thrillers

    • Jerry Palmer
    Pages 76-98

  6. True to Me Always: An Analysis of Women’s Magazine Fiction

    • Bridget Fowler
    Pages 99-126

  7. A Career in Love: The Romantic World of Barbara Cartland

    • Rosalind Brunt
    Pages 127-156

  8. Room at the Top: The Morality of Affluence

    • Stuart Laing
    Pages 157-184

  9. Utopia and Fantasy in the Late 1960s: Burroughs, Moorcock, Tolkien

    • David Glover
    Pages 185-211

  10. Watership Down: Rolling Back the 1960s

    • Christopher Pawling
    Pages 212-235

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 236-246
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  • Department of Communication Studies, Sheffield City Polytechnic, UK

    Christopher Pawling

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