num_pages: 224
description: 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 McMillan and Walter Mosley.Scott Mc Cracken argues that popular fiction serves a vital it provides us with the means to construct a workable sense of self in the face of the disorientating pressures of modernity.
language: English
title: Pulp: Reading popular fiction
titlecomplete: Pulp: Reading popular fiction
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Manchester University Press