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  • Popular Fiction

    The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

    by Ken Gelder ...
    In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progressive and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary field. Drawing on a wide range of popular novelists, from Sir Walter Scott and Marie Corelli to Ian Fleming, J. K. Rowling and Stephen King, his book describes for the first time how this field works and what its unique features are. In addition, Gelder provides a ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people. The kangaroo hunt ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • New Vampire Cinema

    by Ken Gelder ...
    New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and self-sustaining.Ken Gelder's fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Colonial Adventure

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    Adventure was one of the grand narratives of colonisation, which saw European powers sending agents off to new and distant worlds. Their journeys didn't always follow a straight line. Some were shipwrecked, lost or marooned; adventure turned into misadventure. Others left the colony as soon as they arrived. Convicts fled to Timor, China, and South America, while bushrangers roamed the country, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Reading the Vampire

    by Ken Gelder ...
    Series series Popular Fictions Series
    Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination.Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film, from early ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • After The Celebration

    Australian Fiction 1989-2007

    by Ken Gelder, Paul Salzman ...
    After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia's bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman combine close attention to Australian novels with a vivid depiction of their contexts: cultural, social, political, historical, national and transnational. From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Colonial Australian Fiction

    Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy

    by Ken Gelder, Dr Rachael Weaver ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of types appeared in Australian literature: the swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the "currency lass", the squatter, and more. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies' developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • Subcultures

    Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    by Ken Gelder ...
    This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London’s ‘Elizabethan underworld’, taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx’s later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in some ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Adapting Bestsellers

    Fantasy, Franchise and the Afterlife of Storyworlds

    by Ken Gelder ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This Element looks at adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other media platforms. It focuses on 'transmedia storytelling', building its case studies around the genre of modern fantasy: because the elaborate storyworlds produced by writers like J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling and George R. R. Martin have readily lent themselves to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    Grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate an unforgiving landscape that is the stuff of nightmares. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal the gothic imagination that lies at the heart of Australian fiction.This anthology collects the best examples of colonial Australian gothic short ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Anthology Of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction collects captivating stories of love and passion, longing and regret. In these tales women arriving in the New World make decisions about relationships and marriage, social conventions, finances and career—and even the future of the nation itself. The 'slim and graceful' Australian girl becomes a new character type: independent, self-possessed ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction

    by Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction. Squatters defend their hard-earned properties from attack, while floods and other natural disasters threaten to wipe any trace of settlement away. Colonial Australian adventure fiction takes its ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD