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The Cambridge companion to popular fiction /

"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 cov...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Glover, David Ed, McCracken, Scott Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge companions to topics
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Online Access:http://books.google.co.in/books?id=RBOgyekqWLwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Cambridge+companion+to+popular+fiction&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ng50VMnyCYOxuQSO_IDICw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Cambridge%20companion%20to%20popular%20fiction&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction David Glover and Scott McCracken; 1. Publishing, history, genre David Glover; 2. Fiction, theatre, and early cinema Nicholas Daly; 3. Television and serial fictions John Caughie; 4. The public sphere, popular culture and the true meaning of the Zombie Apocalypse Roger Luckhurst; 5. The reader of popular fiction Nicola Humble; 6. Reading time: popular fiction and the everyday Scott McCracken; 7. Gender and sexuality in popular fiction Kaye Mitchell; 8. Pulp sensations Erin A. Smith; 9. Bestselling fiction: machinery, economy, excess Fred Botting; 10. Comic books and graphic novels Hilary Chute and Marianne Dekoven; 11. Popular fictions in the digital age Brenda Silver; Further reading; Index.