Popular fiction : the logics and practices of a literary field / Ken Gelder
- Bib ID:
- 3524538
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gelder, Ken, 1955-
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- Description:
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- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, 2004
- 179 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415356474
- 0415356466
- Summary:
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"In this book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progressive and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary field. Drawing on a wide range of popular novelists, from Sir Walter Scott and Marie Corelli to Ian Fleming, J. K. Rowling and Stephen King, the book describes for the first time how this field works and what its unique features are." "This book is essential reading for those interested in the way popular fiction works as a literary, cultural and industrial practice."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. Defining the field
- 1. Popular fiction : the opposite of literature?
- 2. Genre : history, attitudes, practice
- 3. Processing popular fiction : bookshops, fans, fanzines and prozines, organizations
- Pt. II. Five popular novelists
- 4. (Lo-tech) John Grisham and (hi-tech) Michael Crichton : putting the thriller to work
- 5. The vampire writes back : Anne Rice and the (re)turn of the author
- 6. Jackie Collins, anti-romance and the celebrity novel
- 7. J. R. R. Tolkien and global terrorism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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