Gender, Genre & Narrative Pleasure RLE.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longhurst, Derek.

Contributor:

Longhurst, Derek., Editor.

Series:

RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature

Gender, genre and narrative pleasure ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Routledge 2012.

London : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents regarded popular fiction as the negative which offered definition to the exposure of the positive - the 'great' canonic literary tradition. Generally, then, popular fictions were to be 'evaluated' according to the institutionalized norms which had been established as common sense practice

Contents:

Front Cover; New: Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure; New: Copyright Page; Old: Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reading Popular Fiction: Derek Longhurst; 1. West of everything: Jane Tompkins; 2. The political unconscious in the maternal melodrama: Ellen Wood's East Lynne (1861): E. Ann Kaplan; 3. Sherlock Holmes: Adventures of an English gentleman 1887-1894: Derek Longhurst; 4. The stuff that dreams are made of: Masculinity, femininity and the thriller: David Glover

5. The masculine fiction of William McIlvanney: Peter Humm and Paul Stigant6. Rewriting the masculine script: The novels of Joseph Hansen: Roger Bromley; 7. The divided gaze: Reflections on the political thriller: Tony Davies; 8. Gorky Park: American dreams in Siberia: Barry Taylor; 9. Bodily symbolism and the fiction of Stephen King: Verena Lovett; 10. Popular writing and feminist intervention in science fiction: Sarah Lefanu; 11. Science fiction: The dreams of men: Derek Longhurst; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-32152-7

1-283-58638-X

9786613898838

0-203-12047-7

1-136-32153-5

9780203120477

OCLC:

809409638