Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction / / Bernice Murphy, Stephen Matterson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Murphy, Bernice,; Matterson, Stephen,
• MitwirkendeR: Clarke, Clare,; Cliff, Brian,; Downey, Dara,; Harvey, Kate,; Hayes-Brady, Clare,; Hynes, Gerard,; Janicker, Rebecca,; Kenneally, Stephen,; Killeen, Jarlath,; Kinane, Ian,; Matterson, Stephen,; Murphy, Bernice M.,; O’Sullivan, Keith,; Prescott, Tara,; Priest, Hannah,; Roddy, Kate,; Shanahan, Jim,; Siemann, Catherine,; Tranter, Kirsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first centuryThis groundbreaking collection captures the state of popular fiction in present day. It features twenty new essays on key authors associated with a wide range of genres and sub-genres, providing chapter-length discussions of major post-2000 works of contemporary popular fiction. The lively, accessible and academically rigorous essays presented here cover a wider range of established popular fiction genres such as fantasy, horror and the romance, as well as more niche areas such as Domestic Noir, Steampunk, the New Weird, Nordic Noir and Zombie Lit. The collection will primarily appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students but general readers may also find the focus on many of today’s most prominent and influential authors to be of interest.Key FeaturesProvides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fictionIncludes timely reassessments of recent fiction by established figures such as Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Larry McMurtry, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, Jodi Picoult, China Miéville, Grant Morrison, Terry Pratchett and Nora Roberts as well as consideration of authors who have emerged more recently, amongst them Stephenie Meyer, Gillian Flynn, E.L. James, Hugh Howey, Cherie Priest, and Max BrooksIncludes supplementary material such recommended further reading at the end of each chapter

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: ‘Changing the Story’ – Popular Fiction Today -- Chapter 1 Larry McMurtry’s Vanishing Breeds -- Chapter 2 ‘Time to Open the Door’: Stephen King’s Legacy -- Chapter 3 Terry Pratchett: Mostly Human -- Chapter 4 From Westeros to HBO: George R. R. Martin and the Mainstreaming of Fantasy -- Chapter 5 Nora Roberts: The Power of Love -- Chapter 6 The King of Stories: Neil Gaiman’s Twenty-First- Century Fiction -- Chapter 7 Jo Nesbø: Murder in the Folkhemmet -- Chapter 8 ‘It’s a Trap! Don’t Turn the Page’: Metafiction and the Multiverse in the Comics of Grant Morrison -- Chapter 9 Panoptic and Synoptic Surveillance in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Series -- Chapter 10 E. L. James and the Fifty Shades Phenomenon -- Chapter 11 Fact, Fiction, Fabrication: The Popular Appeal of Dan Brown’s Global Bestsellers -- Chapter 12 ‘I Need to Disillusion You’: J. K. Rowling and Twenty-First- Century Young Adult Fantasy -- Chapter 13 Jodi Picoult: Good Grief -- Chapter 14 ‘We Will Have a Happy Marriage If It Kills Him’: Gillian Flynn and the Rise of Domestic Noir -- Chapter 15 ‘The Bastard Zone’: China Miéville, Perdido Street Station and the New Weird -- Chapter 16 Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer -- Chapter 17 ‘We Needed to Get a Lot of White Collars Dirty’: Apocalypse as Opportunity in Max Brooks’s World War Z -- Chapter 18 Genre and Uncertainty in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries -- Chapter 19 ‘You Get What You Ask For’: Hugh Howey, Science Fiction and Authorial Agency -- Chapter 20 Cherie Priest: At the Intersection of History and Technology -- About the Contributors -- Index