Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction

Christine Berberich is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her previous publications include The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth Century Literature (2007).

The book as a whole brings a refreshing depth, clarity and academic rigour to a field that has long been left languishing.

• Acknowledgements Contributors’ Details Christine Berberich, ‘Introduction: The Popular / Literature versus literaturePart I: HistoryI.i.: Christopher Pittard, ‘The Victorian Context: Serialization, Circulation, Genres’ I.ii.: Christine Berberich, ‘Twentieth-Century Popular: History, Theory, and Context’ Part II: GenresII.i.: Maryan Wherry, ‘More than a Love Story: The ComplexitiesOf the Popular Romance’ II.ii.: Alice Ferrebe, ‘“The Lads’ Own Paper”: Male Confessional Literature and the Legacy of Adventure II.iii.: Andy Sawyer, ‘Science Fiction: The Sense of Wonder’ II.iv.: Stefania Ciocia, ‘Rules are Meant to Be Broken: Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century Crime Writing’ II.v.: Gina Wisker, ‘Disturbance, Disorder, Destruction, Disease:Horror Fiction Today’ II.vi.: Lena Steveker, ‘Alternative Worlds: Popular Fiction (notonly) for Children’ II.vii.: Monica Germanà, ‘The Coming of Age of Graphic Narratives’ Part III: Case StudiesIII.i.: Ben Clarke, ‘H.G. Wells, Élitism, and Popular Fiction’ III.ii.: Patrick Parrinder, ‘John Buchan and the Spy Thriller’ III.iii.: Juan F. Elices, ‘Manipulating Popularity: A Case Study of Ian Fleming’s James Bond Series III.iv.: Joanne Bishton, ‘Subverting the Romance: the Fictionof Sarah Waters’ III.v.: Bran Nicol, ‘The Hard-Boiled Detective: Dashiell Hammett’ III.vi.: Petra Rau, ‘Violent Pleasures: War as Entertainment’ III.vii.: Neil Campbell, ‘Popular Vampires: The Twilight Effect’ III.viii.: Ben Dew, ‘Rewriting Popular Classics as Popular Fiction:Jane Austen, Zombies, Sex and Vampires’ III.ix.: Carl Tighe, ‘Edu-Biz: The Worlds of Learning and Writing – A Writer’s Perspective’ Christine Berberich, ‘Afterword: The Future of the Popular’ Index