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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 field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical approaches for interrogating the meaning of space and place across diverse genres, including crime, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Including topics such as classic English ghost stories, blockbuster Antarctic thrillers, prize-winning Montreal crime fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and China Miéville's Bas-Lag, among others, this book brings together analyses of the real-and-imagined settings of some of the most widely read authors and texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how they have an immeasurable impact on our spatial awareness and imagination.
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- Cover
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Space, Place, and Popular Fiction
- Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller
- Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica
- Chronotopic Reading of Crime Fiction: Montréal in La Trace de l’Escargot
- Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930–1950: Mary Scott’s Barbara Stories
- The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love
- Ghost-Al Erosion: Beaches and the Supernatural in Two Stories by M.R. James
- Pagan Places: Contemporary Paganism, British Fantasy Fiction, and the Case of Ryhope Wood
- Tolkien’s Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings
- Commuting to Another World: Spaces of Transport and Transport Maps in Urban Fantasy
- Mapping Monstrosity: Metaphorical Geographies in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy
- Air Force One: Popular (Non)fiction in Flight
- States of Nostalgia in the Genre of the Future: Panem, Globalization, and Utopia in The Hunger Games Trilogy
- Backmatter