Popular Fiction and Spatiality

CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Space, Place and Popular Fiction Lisa Fletcher Chapter 1: Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher Chapter 2: Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica Elizabeth Leane Chapter 3: Chronotopic Reading of Crime Fiction: Montreal in La Trace de l'Escargot Marc Brosseau and Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel Chapter 4: Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930-1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories Jane Stafford Chapter 5: The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love William Gleason Chapter 6: Ghost-Al Erosion: Beaches and the Supernatural in Two Stories by M. R. James Lucie Armitt Chapter 7: Pagan Places: Contemporary Paganism, British Fantasy Fiction, and the Case of Ryhope Wood Kim Wilkins Chapter 8: Tolkien's Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings Robert T. Tally Jr. Chapter 9: Commuting to Another World: Spaces of Transport and Transport Maps in Urban Fantasy David Pike Chapter 10: Mapping Monstrosity: Metaphorical Geographies in China Mieville's Bas-Lag Trilogy Robert A. Saunders Chapter 11: Air Force One: Popular (Non)Fiction in Flight Christopher Schaberg Chapter 12: 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 Notes on Contributors Index

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