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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452403703321

Titolo

Popular fictions : essays in Literature and history / / edited by Peter Humm, Paul Stigant, and Peter Widdowson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

0-415-86638-3

1-315-01593-5

1-136-49256-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

New accent series

Altri autori (Persone)

HummPeter

StigantPaul

WiddowsonPeter

Disciplina

280

Soggetti

English literature - History and criticism

Popular literature - Great Britain - History and criticism

Literature and history - Great Britain

Politics and literature

Popular culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1986 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Preface; List of Contributors; Editors' Note; 1 Introduction; 2 Literature and the Grub Street Myth; 3 Beggars and Thieves: The Beggar's Opera as Crime Drama; 4 The Moment of Pickwick, or the Production of a Commodity Text; 5 History and 'Literary Value': Adam Bede and Salem Chapel; 6 What Shall We do with the Starving Baby? - Edward Jenkins and Ginx's Baby; 7 Fictional Suburbia; 8 Philip Gibbs and the Newsreel Novel; 9 The Gentry, Bourgeois Hegemony and Popular Fiction: Rebecca and Rogue Male

10 Agincourt 1944: Readings in the Shakespeare Myth11 Production and Reproduction: The Case of Frankenstein; 12 Re-Imagining the Fairy Tales: Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers; 13 Marxism and Popular Fiction



Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.