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. Tolkiens Middle-earth, and China Mi?villes 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.
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 lEscargot
Marc Brosseau and Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel
Chapter 4: Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930-1950: Mary Scotts Barbara Stories
Jane Stafford
Chapter 5: The Inside Story: Jennifer Cruslc{
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