New Directions in Popular Fiction

NEW DIRECTIONS IN POPULAR FICTION Genre, Distribution, Reproduction Edited by KEN GELDER New Directions in Popular Fiction Ken Gelder Editor New Directions in Popular Fiction Genre, Distribution, Reproduction Editor Ken Gelder University of Melbourne Parkville , Australia ISBN 978-1-137-52345-7 ISBN 978-1-137-52346-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956660 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identifi ed as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom CONTENTS The Fields of Popular Fiction 1 Ken Gelder Part I Histories of Popular Genres 21 Love in the Time of Finance: Eliza Haywood and the Rise of the Scenic Novel 23 Joe Hughes Colonial Australian Detectives, Character Type and the Colonial Economy 43 Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver ‘The Floodgates of Inkland were Opened’: Aestheticising the Whitechapel Murders 67 Grace Moore Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890–1939 87 Hsu-Ming Teo v vi CONTENTS ‘The Future of our Delicate Network of Empire’: The Riddle of the Sands and the Birth of the British Spy Thriller 111 Merrick Burrow Did Indians Read Dime Novels?: Re-Indigenising the Western at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 135 Christine Bold Unno Juˉza and the Uses of Science in Prewar Japanese Popular Fiction 157 Seth Jacobowitz The New Weird 177 Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock From Middle Earth to Westeros: Medievalism, Proliferation and Paratextuality 201 Kim Wilkins Denise Mina’s Garnethill Trilogy: Feminist Crime Fiction at the Millennium 223 Sabine Vanacker Popular Fiction in Québec: National Identity and ‘American’ Genres 239 Amy J. Ransom Glass and Game: The Speculative Girl Hero 261 Catherine Driscoll and Alexandra Heatwole CONTENTS vii Part II Authors, Distribution, (Re)Production 285 Mediating Popular Fictions: From the Magic Lantern to the Cinematograph 287 Helen Groth ‘The Power of Her Pen’: Marie Corelli, Authorial Identity and Literary Value 309 Kirsten MacLeod Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage 327 Catherine Wynne Beyond the Antipodes: Australian Popular Fiction in Transnational Networks 349 David Carter Adapting Ira Levin: A Case Study 371 Imelda Whelehan An Assassin Across Narratives: Reading Assassin’s Creed from Videogame to Novel 387 Souvik Mukherjee Fan Works and the Law 405 Aaron Schwabach Readers of Popular Fiction and Emotion Online 425 Beth Driscoll Select Bibliography 451 Index 459 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Christine Bold is Professor of English, University of Guelph, Canada. She has published six books and many essays on popular culture and cultural memory, most recently the award-winning The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880–1924 (2013). She is currently researching ‘Vaudeville Indians’ (Indigenous and non-indigenous) on global vaudeville-variety circuits, 1880–1930. Merrick Burrow is a Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Huddersfi eld, UK. He has published on a wide range of late Victorian and Edwardian writers of popular fi ction, including Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, and G.K. Chesterton. Merrick is currently working on a monograph on Conan Doyle. David Carter is Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Queensland, Australia and the author of Always Almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013). He is currently completing a history of Australian books in the American marketplace and is part of an Australian Research Council–funded project titled ‘Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction in the Twenty-First Century’. Beth Driscoll is a Lecturer in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is author of The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (2014). Beth’s current research includes work on contemporary reading cultures and an Australian Research Council– funded project titled ‘Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction in the Twenty- First Century’. Catherine Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is author of Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular ix x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Culture and Cultural Theory (2002), Modernist Cultural Studies (2010), Teen Film: A Critical Introduction (2011) and The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience (2014). Ken Gelder is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His authored books include Reading the Vampire (1994), Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998, with Jane M. Jacobs), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007) and New Vampire Cinema (2012). Helen Groth is Professor in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (2003), Moving Images: Nineteenth- Century Reading and Screen Practices (2013) and, with Natalya Lusty, Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History (2013). Helen is currently working on James Joyce’s phono- graphic recordings of Finnegans Wake for a forthcoming collection she is co-edit- ing entitled Sounding Modernism. Alexandra Heatwole has recently completed a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her PhD thesis, ‘Renegotiating the Heroine: Postfeminism on the Speculative Screen’, examined ‘postfeminism’ as the confl ux of girl power and girl-at-risk discourse and looked at its impact on the contemporary heroine of fantasy fi ction and fi lm. With Catherine Driscoll, she is writing a book on the Hunger Games trilogy. Joe Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His most recent book is Philosophy after Deleuze (2012) and he has published widely on contemporary European thought. He is currently working on a history of the scenic form of the European novel. Seth Jacobowitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, USA. He is the author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (2015) and the Edogawa Rampo Reader (2008). Kirsten MacLeod teaches English literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing, and the fi n de siècle (2006). Kirsten was curator of an exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York City, American Little Magazines of the 1890s: A Revolution in Print (2013); she has recently completed a monograph on this topic, and is now working on a project about the writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. Grace Moore is a Senior Research Fellow at the ARC’s Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her monograph, Dickens and Empire , was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xi Literary Scholarship in 2006. Her most recent book is The Victorian Novel in Context (2012). Souvik Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Presidency University (formerly Presidency College), Calcutta, India. He is the author of Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books (2015). He is currently working on discourses of postcolonialism in videogames. Besides game studies, his other research interests include the digital humanities and early modern literature. Amy J. Ransom is Professor of French at Central Michigan University, USA. She is the author of Science Fiction from Québec: A Postcolonial Study (2009) and Hockey PQ: Canada’s Game in Québec’s Popular Culture (2014). Aaron Schwabach is Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, USA. He is author of Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises (2005; 2d ed. 2014), Intellectual Property: A Reference Handbook (2007) and Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection (2011). Hsu-Ming Teo is an Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Australia. Her academic publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels (2012), Cultural History in Australia (2003) and articles on the history of travel, Orientalism, imperialism and popular culture. She is also author of the novels Love and Vertigo (2000) and Behind the Moon (2005). Sabine Vanacker is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, UK. She is co-author, with Marion Shaw, of Refl ecting on Miss Marple (1991) and co-editor with Catherine Wynne of Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: Multi- Media Afterlives (2013).

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