01774nam a2200241 a 4500 20140310183356.0 121029s19uu xx 00 eng d 9780521734967 PN 3344 .C36 2012 The Cambridge companion to popular fiction / edited by David Glover and Scott McCracken. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 225 p. : 23 cm. Cambridge companions to topics Includes index 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, 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 Fiction Social aspects Popular culture and literature Literature and society Fiction genres McCracken, Scott BK lcc FOR 22241 22241 0 0 lcc 0 CL CL RES 2012-10-29 Forefront 1764.00 0 PN 3344 .C36 2012 C16054 2014-10-30 00:00:00 1 2013-10-10 BK