The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | David Glover |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2012-04-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521513375 |
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Edward James |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2003-11-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521016575 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Miller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2021-09-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108838278 |
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Maxwell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2008-02-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781139827911 |
While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 PDF eBook |
Author | John N. Duvall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521196310 |
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Unwin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1997-10-28 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780521499149 |
This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.
The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | David Glover |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2012-04-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107493854 |
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.