Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction

Name: Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
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ISBN: 9780521734967

ISBN-10: 0521734967

ISBN-13: 9780521734967

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Glover, Scott McCracken

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Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised 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,…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

David and Penny Glover are experienced writers of books for children.

Scott McCracken is Professor of English at Keele University.



Introduction




Publishing, history, genre




Fiction, theatre, and early cinema




Television and serial fictions




The public sphere, popular culture and the true meaning of the Zombie Apocalypse




The reader of popular fiction




Reading time: popular fiction and the everyday




Gender and sexuality in popular fiction




Pulp sensations




Bestselling fiction: machinery, economy, excess




Comic books and graphic novels




Popular fictions in the digital age



Further reading


Index