| Author | : David Glover |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total 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.
| Author | : Edward James |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2003-11-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521016575 |
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| Author | : Joshua Miller |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total 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.
| Author | : Robert Shaughnessy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2007-06-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521844290 |
This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare's life and works in popular forms and media.
| Author | : Richard Maxwell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total 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.
| Author | : Martin Priestman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2003-11-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107494508 |
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
| Author | : William Solomon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2018-09-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108429181 |
Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.
| Author | : Angelyn Mitchell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2009-04-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0521858887 |
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.
| Author | : David Glover |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total 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.
