Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction with detailed readings of Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Colin Dexter, William Gibson, Stephen King, Iain Banks, Terry Mc Millan and Walter Mosley.
Scott Mc Cracken argues that popular fiction serves a vital function: it provides us with the means to construct a workable sense of self in the face of the disorientating pressures of modernity.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
introduction World, reader and text
one Bestsellers
two Detective fiction
three Popular romance
four Science fiction
five Gothic horror
six Transgression and utopianism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Scott Mc Cracken is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford
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