Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings

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: Montr?al 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 Mi?ville'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