Introduction : reading popular fiction / Derek Longhurst -- West of everything / Jane Tompkins -- The political unconscious in the maternal melodrama : Ellen Wood's East Lynne (1861) / E. Ann Kaplan -- Sherlock Holmes : adventures of an English gentleman 1887-1894 / Derek Longhurst -- The stuff that dreams are made of : masculinity, femininity and the thriller / David Glover -- The masculine fiction of William McIlvanney / Peter Humm and Paul Stigant -- Rewriting the masculine script : the novels of Joseph Hansen / Roger Bromley -- The divided gaze : reflections on the political thriller / Tony Davies -- Gorky Park : American dreams in Siberia / Barry Taylor -- Bodily symbolism and the fiction of Stephen King / Verena Lovett -- Popular writing and feminist intervention in science fiction / Sarah Lefanu -- Science fiction : the dreams of men / Derek Longhurst
Analysis
Popular fiction in English Sociocultural aspects
Notes
Popular fiction in English. Sociocultural aspects (BNB/PRECIS)
