Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction
Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first century
This 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 Features
Provides 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

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Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction
Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first century
This 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 Features
Provides 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

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Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first century
This 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 Features
Provides 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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474414852
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 01/16/2018
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Stephen Matterson is Professor of American Literature in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, and a Fellow of the College. He has published widely on US literature, with emphasis on 20th-century poetry and literature of the mid-19th century. In addition to a series of co-edited collections of essays, his book publications include American Literature: The Essential Glossary (Bloomsbury, 2003), and Melville: Fashioning in Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction. ‘Changing the story’: Popular Fiction today

Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson

1. Larry McMurtry’s Vanishing Breeds

Stephen Matterson

2. ‘Time to Open the Door’: Stephen King’s Legacy

Rebecca Janicker

3. Terry Pratchett: Mostly Human

Jim Shanahan

4. From Westeros to HBO: George R.R. Martin and the Mainstreaming of

Fantasy 

Gerard Hynes

5. Nora Roberts: The Power of Love

Jarlath Killeen

6. The King of Stories: Neil Gaiman’s Twenty-first Century Fiction

Tara Prescott

7. Jo Nesbø: Murder in the Folkhemmet

Clare Clarke

8. ‘It’s a trap! Don’t turn the page.’ Metafiction and the Multiverse in the Comics

of Grant Morrison

Kate Roddy

9. Panoptic and Synoptic Surveillance in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games

Series

Keith O’Sullivan

10. E. L. James and the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon

Dara Downey

11. Fact, Fiction, Fabrication: The Popular Appeal of Dan Brown’s Global

Bestsellers

Ian Kinane

12. ‘I Need to Disillusion You’: J.K. Rowling and Twenty-First-Century Young

Adult Fantasy

Kate Harvey

13. Jodi Picoult: Good Grief

Clare Hayes-Brady

14. ‘We Will Have a Happy Marriage If It Kills Him’: Gillian Flynn and the Rise

of Domestic Noir

Bernice M. Murphy

15. ‘The Bastard Zone’: China Miéville, Perdido Street Station and the New

Weird

Kirsten Tranter

16. Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of

Stephanie Meyer

Hannah Priest

17. ‘We needed to get a lot of white collars dirty’:  The Apocalypse as

Opportunity in Max Brooks’ World War Z.

Bernice M. Murphy

18. Genre and Uncertainty in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries

Brian Cliff

 

19. ‘You Get What You Ask For’: Hugh Howey, SF, and Authorial Agency

Stephen Kenneally

20. Cherie Priest: At the Intersection of History and Technology

Catherine Siemann

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