New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction

473 Pages·2016·4.154 MB·English

by  Ken Gelder (eds.)

NEW DIRECTIONS
IN
POPULAR FICTION
Genre, Distribution, Reproduction
Edited by
KEN GELDER
New Directions in Popular Fiction
Ken Gelder
Editor
New Directions in
Popular Fiction
Genre, Distribution, Reproduction
Editor
Ken Gelder
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Australia
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C
ONTENTS
The Fields of Popular Fiction 1
Ken Gelder
Part I Histories of Popular Genres 2 1
Love in the Time of Finance: Eliza Haywood and the Rise
of the Scenic Novel 2 3
Joe Hughes
Colonial Australian Detectives, Character Type
and the Colonial Economy 4 3
Ken Gelder and R achael Weaver
‘The Floodgates of Inkland were Opened’: Aestheticising
the Whitechapel Murders 67
Grace Moore
Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic
Novel, 1890–1939 87
Hsu-Ming Teo
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vi CONTENTS
‘The Future of our Delicate Network of Empire’: T he Riddle
of the Sands and the Birth of the British Spy Thriller 111
Merrick Burrow
Did Indians Read Dime Novels?: Re-Indigenising
the Western at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 1 35
Christine Bold
Unno Juˉza and the Uses of Science in Prewar Japanese
Popular Fiction 1 57
Seth Jacobowitz
The New Weird 1 77
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
From Middle Earth to Westeros: Medievalism,
Proliferation and Paratextuality 2 01
Kim Wilkins
Denise Mina’s G arnethill Trilogy: Feminist Crime
Fiction at the Millennium 223
Sabine Vanacker
Popular Fiction in Québec: National Identity
and ‘American’ Genres 239
Amy J. Ransom
Glass and Game: The Speculative Girl Hero 2 61
Catherine Driscoll and A lexandra Heatwole
CONTENTS vii

Part II Authors, Distribution, (Re)Production 2 85
Mediating Popular Fictions: From the Magic Lantern
to the Cinematograph 287
Helen Groth
‘The Power of Her Pen’: Marie Corelli, Authorial
Identity and Literary Value 3 09
Kirsten MacLeod
Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins
and Stevenson on Stage 327
Catherine Wynne
Beyond the Antipodes: Australian Popular Fiction
in Transnational Networks 349
David Carter
Adapting Ira Levin: A Case Study 3 71
Imelda Whelehan
An Assassin Across Narratives: Reading A ssassin’s Creed
from Videogame to Novel 3 87
Souvik Mukherjee
Fan Works and the Law 4 05
Aaron Schwabach
Readers of Popular Fiction and Emotion Online 4 25
Beth Driscoll
Select Bibliography 4 51
Index 459
N C
OTES ON ONTRIBUTORS
Christine   Bold is Professor of English, University of Guelph, Canada. She has
published six books and many essays on popular culture and cultural memory,
most recently the award-winning T he Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural
Power, 1880–1924 (2013). She is currently researching ‘Vaudeville Indians’
(Indigenous and non-indigenous) on global vaudeville-variety circuits,
1880–1930.
Merrick   B urrow is a Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of
Huddersfi eld, UK. He has published on a wide range of late Victorian and
Edwardian writers of popular fi ction, including Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, and G.K. Chesterton. Merrick is currently
working on a monograph on Conan Doyle.
David   Carter is Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the
University of Queensland, Australia and the author of Always Almost Modern:
Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013). He is currently completing a
history of Australian books in the American marketplace and is part of an Australian
Research Council–funded project titled ‘Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction
in the Twenty-First Century’.
Beth   D riscoll is a Lecturer in Publishing and Communications at the University
of Melbourne, Australia. She is author of The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers
and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (2014). Beth’s current research includes
work on contemporary reading cultures and an Australian Research Council–
funded project titled ‘Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction in the Twenty-
First Century’.
Catherine   Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University
of Sydney, Australia. She is author of Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular
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x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Culture and Cultural Theory (2002), M odernist Cultural Studies (2010), T een
Film: A Critical Introduction (2011) and T he Australian Country Girl: History,
Image, Experience (2014).
Ken   Gelder is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
His authored books include R eading the Vampire (1994), U ncanny Australia:
Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998, with Jane M. Jacobs),
Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), Subcultures:
Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007) and N ew Vampire Cinema
(2012).
Helen   Groth is Professor in the School of Arts and Media at the University of
New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Victorian Photography and
Literary Nostalgia (2003), M oving Images: Nineteenth-C entury Reading and
Screen Practices (2013) and, with Natalya Lusty, D reams and Modernity: A
Cultural History (2013). Helen is currently working on James Joyce’s phono-
graphic recordings of Finnegans Wake for a forthcoming collection she is co-edit-
ing entitled S ounding Modernism.
Alexandra   Heatwole has recently completed a Teaching Fellowship at the
University of Sydney, Australia. Her PhD thesis, ‘Renegotiating the Heroine:
Postfeminism on the Speculative Screen’, examined ‘postfeminism’ as the confl ux
of girl power and girl-at-risk discourse and looked at its impact on the contempo-
rary heroine of fantasy fi ction and fi lm. With Catherine Driscoll, she is writing a
book on the Hunger Games trilogy.
Joe   Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies at the University
of Melbourne, Australia. His most recent book is Philosophy after Deleuze (2012)
and he has published widely on contemporary European thought. He is currently
working on a history of the scenic form of the European novel.
Seth   Jacobowitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian
Languages and Literatures at Yale University, USA. He is the author of Writing
Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and
Visual Culture (2015) and the E dogawa Rampo Reader (2008).
Kirsten   MacLeod t eaches English literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is
the author of F ictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing, and the fi n
de siècle (2006). Kirsten was curator of an exhibition at the Grolier Club in
New York City, A merican Little Magazines of the 1890s: A Revolution in Print
(2013); she has recently completed a monograph on this topic, and is now work-
ing on a project about the writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.
Grace   Moore is a Senior Research Fellow at the ARC’s Centre for Excellence in
the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her mono-
graph, D ickens and Empire , was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xi
Literary Scholarship in 2006. Her most recent book is T he Victorian Novel in
Context (2012).
Souvik   M ukherjee is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Presidency
University (formerly Presidency College), Calcutta, India. He is the author of
Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books (2015). He is cur-
rently working on discourses of postcolonialism in videogames. Besides game
studies, his other research interests include the digital humanities and early mod-
ern literature.
Amy   J.   Ransom is Professor of French at Central Michigan University, USA. She
is the author of Science Fiction from Québec: A Postcolonial Study (2009) and
Hockey PQ: Canada’s Game in Québec’s Popular Culture (2014).
Aaron   Schwabach is Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San
Diego, USA. He is author of Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and
Compromises (2005; 2d ed. 2014), I ntellectual Property: A Reference Handbook
(2007) and Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property
Protection (2011).
Hsu-Ming   Teo is an Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Australia. Her
academic publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels
(2012), C ultural History in Australia (2003) and articles on the history of travel,
Orientalism, imperialism and popular culture. She is also author of the novels Love
and Vertigo (2000) and B ehind the Moon (2005).
Sabine   Vanacker is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull,
UK. She is co-author, with Marion Shaw, of Refl ecting on Miss Marple (1991) and
co-editor with Catherine Wynne of Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: Multi-
Media Afterlives (2013). Her current research is on the crime writer P.D. James.
Rachael   Weaver is an ARC Research Fellow in English at the University of
Melbourne, Australia. She is author of The Criminal of the Century (2006) and
co-editor with Ken Gelder of The Colonial Journals, and the Emergence of
Australian Literary Culture (2014). She is currently completing a book with Ken
Gelder on colonial Australian fi ction, to be published by Sydney University Press
in early 2017.
J effrey   Andrew   Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University,
USA. He is an associate editor of J ournal of the Fantastic in the Arts and the author
or editor of nineteen books, the most recent of which are The Age of Lovecraft (co-
edited with Carl Sederholm, 2016), Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture (co-
authored with Isabella van Elferen, 2016) and Return to Twin Peaks: New
Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre on Television (co-edited with
Catherine Spooner, 2016). He is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to
the American Gothic and developing a book on the Gothic and materiality.