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...

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