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New Directions in Popular Fiction

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Fields of Popular Fiction

    • Ken Gelder
    Pages 1-19

  3. 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
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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.

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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