Popular Fiction:

The Logics And Practices Of A Literary Field

Taylor & Francis Group, 2004 - Fiction - 179 pages

In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progressive and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary field. Drawing on a wide range of popular novelists, from Sir Walter Scott and Marie Corelli to Ian Fleming, J. K. Rowling and Stephen King, his book describes for the first time how this field works and what its unique features are. In addition, Gelder provides a critical history of three primary genres - romance, crime fiction and science fiction - and looks at the role of bookshops, fanzines and prozines in the distribution and evaluation of popular fiction. Finally, he examines five bestselling popular novelists in detail - John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Anne Rice, Jackie Collins and J. R. R. Tolkien - to see how popular fiction is used, discussed and identified in contemporary culture.

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the whole idea of "rating" academic texts is kinda weird, but this is a useful and interesting analysis of the popular literature the first chapter of which will be really useful in the course i teach on popular writing and criticism. Read full review

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About the author (2004)

Ken Gelder is a Reader in English at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include Reading the Vampire (Routledge 1994) and, with Jane M. Jacobs, Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (Melbourne University Press, 1998). He is co-editor of The Subcultures Reader (1997) and editor of The Horror Reader (2000), both published by Routledge.

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Title	Popular Fiction: The Logics And Practices Of A Literary Field
Author	Ken Gelder
Edition	illustrated
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Group, 2004
ISBN	0415356466, 9780415356466
Length	179 pages
Subjects	Literary Criticism › American › General Fiction / General Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Social Science / Popular Culture

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