TY  - BOOK
N2  - "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"--
AB  - "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"--
T1  - The Cambridge companion to popular fiction /
DA  - 2012.
CY  - Cambridge, UK ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Glover, David,
AU  - McCracken, Scott.
CN  - PN3344
CN  - PN3344
PB  - Cambridge University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, UK ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2012.
ID  - 455606
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Popular culture and literature.
KW  - Literature and society.
KW  - Fiction genres.
SN  - 9780521513371
SN  - 0521513375
SN  - 9780521734967 (pbk.)
SN  - 0521734967 (pbk.)
TI  - The Cambridge companion to popular fiction /
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ER  -