The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction 1st Edition by David Glover, Scott McCracken ISBN 0521734967 978-0521734967

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ISBN 10: 0521734967

ISBN 13:  978-0521734967

Author:  David Glover, Scott McCracken

Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialized novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp fiction, bestsellers, and comics and graphic narratives. The volume also examines the public and personal everyday contexts within which popular texts are read, highlighting the ways in which such narratives have circulated across a variety of constantly changing media, including theatre, television, cinema and new computer-based digital forms. Case studies from key genres – crime fiction, romance and Gothic horror – as well as a full chronology and guide to further reading make this collection indispensable to all those interested in this complex and vibrant cultural field.

Table of contents: 

1 – Publishing, history, genre
2 – Fiction, theatre and early cinema
3 – Television and serial fictions
4 – The public sphere, popular culture and the true meaning of the zombie apocalypse
5 – The reader of popular fiction
6 – Reading time: popular fiction and the everyday
7 – Gender and sexuality in popular fiction
8 – Pulp sensations
9 – Bestselling fiction: machinery, economy, excess
10 – Comic books and graphic novels
11 – Popular fiction in the digital age

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