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"Bernice Murphy's excellent guide to the rapidly changing field of contemporary popular fiction explores every nook and cranny from 'Aga Sagas' to Zombie fiction, leaving no stone unturned. Theoretically acute, historically informed and written with immense verve, this is an indispensable and, above all, accessible introduction that is certain to reach a wide and diverse readership.--David Glover, University of Southampton A rewarding book suitable for many fields from the Sociology of Literature to Cultural Studies, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction should be recommended reading for undergraduates in English, Literary Criticism, Social Theory, and American Studies. [...] It is a clear, useful, and rather inexpensive resource, and even public libraries would benefit from owning it.--Yves Laberge ""Irish Journal of American Studies 9"""

Bernice Murphy's excellent guide to the rapidly changing field of contemporary popular fiction explores every nook and cranny from 'Aga Sagas' to Zombie fiction, leaving no stone unturned. Theoretically acute, historically informed and written with immense verve, this is an indispensable and, above all, accessible introduction that is certain to reach a wide and diverse readership.--David Glover, University of Southampton A rewarding book suitable for many fields from the Sociology of Literature to Cultural Studies, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction should be recommended reading for undergraduates in English, Literary Criticism, Social Theory, and American Studies. [...] It is a clear, useful, and rather inexpensive resource, and even public libraries would benefit from owning it.--Yves Laberge ""Irish Journal of American Studies 9""

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Bernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to American Gothic and horror fiction and film and was recently academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (2021, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman). Bernice was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2017.

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