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Author:   Lisa Fletcher
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   3.152kg
ISBN:  

9781349954070

ISBN 10:   1349954071
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   29 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of 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

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Lisa Fletcher is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her books include Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity (2008), and (with Ralph Crane) Cave: Nature and Culture (2015). Her current research focuses on twenty-first-century Australian popular fiction.

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