Twenty-first-century popular fiction. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson.
• Editors: Murphy, Bernice M; Matterson, Stephen
• Contents: Introduction: 'Changing the story', popular fiction today / Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson -- Larry McMurtry's vanishing breeds / Stephen Matterson -- 'Time to open the door': Stephen King's legacy / Rebecca Janicker -- Terry Pratchett: mostly human / Jim Shanahan -- From Westeros to HBO: George R.R. Martin and the mainstreaming of fantasy / Gerard Hynes -- Nora Roberts: the power of love / Jarlath Killeen -- The king of stories: Neil Gaiman's twenty-first century fiction / Tara Prescott -- Jo Nesbo: murder in the Folkhemmet / Clare Clarke -- 'It's a trap! Don't turn the page': metafiction and the multiverse in the comics of Grant Morrison / Kate Roddy -- Panoptic and synoptic surveillance in Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games series / Keith O'Sullivan -- E.L. James and the Fifty Shades phenomenon / Dara Downey -- Fact, fiction, fabrication: the popular appeal of Dan Brown's global bestsellers / Ian Kinane -- 'I need to disillusion you': J.K. Rowling and twenty-first century young adult fantasy / Kate Harvey -- Jodi Picoult: good grief / Clare Hayes-Brady -- 'We will have a happy marriage if it kills him": Gillian Flynn and the rise of domestic noir / Bernice M. Murphy -- 'The Bastard Zone': China Mieville, Perdido Street Station and the new weird / Kirsten Tranter -- Sparkly Vampires and shimmering aliens: the paranormal romance of Stephenie Meyer / Hannah Priest -- 'We needed to get a lot of white collars dirty': Apocalypse as opportunity in Max Brooks's World War Z / Bernice M. Murphy -- Genre and uncertainty in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad mysteries / Brian Cliff -- 'You get what you ask for': Hugh Howey, science fiction and authorial agency / Stephen Kenneally -- Cherie Priest: at the intersection of history and technology / Catherine Siemann.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (iv, 250 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 810/820; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474414869; 1474414869
• Related ISBNs: 1474414850; 9781474414852; 9781474414845; 1474414842; 9781474414876
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.