Popular fiction and spatiality : reading genre settings /: reading genre settings. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lisa Fletcher, editor.
• Contents: Introduction: Space, Place and Popular Fiction, Lisa Fletcher -- Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller, Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher -- Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica, Elizabeth Leane -- Chronotopic Reading of Crime Fiction: Montréal in La Trace de l'Escargot, Marc Brosseau and Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel -- Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930-1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories, Jane Stafford -- The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love, William Gleason -- Ghost-Al Erosion: Beaches and the Supernatural in Two Stories by M.R. James, Lucie Armitt -- Pagan Places: Contemporary Paganism, British Fantasy Fiction, and the Case of Ryhope Wood, Kim Wilkins -- Tolkien's Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings, Robert T. Tally Jr. -- Commuting to Another World: Spaces of Transport and Transport Maps in Urban Fantasy, David Pike -- Mapping Monstrosity: Metaphorical Geographies in China Miéville's Bas-Lag Trilogy, Robert A. Saunders -- Air Force One: Popular (Non)Fiction in Flight, Christopher Schaberg -- States of Nostalgia in the Genre of the Future: Panem, Globalization, and Utopia in The Hunger Games Trilogy, Eric D. Smith and Kylie Korsnack -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.93358; Literature; Geography and literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century; European literature; America -- Literatures; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Space perception in literature; FICTION / General; Geography and literature; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Social Science -- General; Literary Criticism -- European -- General; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary theory; Cultural studies; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137569028; 1137569026
• Related ISBNs: 1137571411; 9781137571410
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.