The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarl …

This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex …

This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction. Examining contemporary animal representations and the fraugh …

A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial GothicKey FeaturesCovers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as deve …

This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but …

The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-century British novel has explored contemporary working-class life …

Winner, 2016 ALA-Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illum …

Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction represents an invaluable starting point for students wishing to familiarise themselves with this exciting and …

The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twe …

Periodizing contemporary fiction against the backdrop of neoliberalism, After Critique identifies a notable turn away from progressive politics among a cad …

This book provides high school and undergraduate students, and other interested readers, with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerou …

Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Rese …

Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema …

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned i …

Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this bo …

The first book length study of the conceptualization and representation of islands in popular fiction. …

This book is the first ever collection about twenty-first century genre fiction. It offers accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in a growing fiel …

This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Phil …

This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and V …

This is an eclectic collection of essays from a group of international scholars tackling various subjects on Victorian literature—from studies of specifi …

Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. Its real origins lurk in the popular press of the early Nineteenth century, where the detective and …

This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David P …

In this collection recognized writers and scholars discuss and analyze Stephen King’s contemporary works. The contributors comment on and critique numero …

Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the va …

This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave of books that use genre st …

It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding En …

This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided int …