Titre :	The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	David Glover, Auteur
Editeur :	cambridge : Archives Contemporaines
Année de publication :	2012
Importance :	225 p.
Format :	23 cm. x 15 cm.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-521-73496-7
Langues :	Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)
Index. décimale :	809 Histoire, analyse, critique littéraires générales (et portant sur plus d'une littérature nationale)
Résumé :	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.

The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction [texte imprimé] / David Glover, Auteur . - cambridge : Archives Contemporaines, 2012 . - 225 p. ; 23 cm. x 15 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-521-73496-7
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)

Index. décimale :

809 Histoire, analyse, critique littéraires générales (et portant sur plus d'une littérature nationale)

Résumé :

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.