Further Reading

Further Reading

In addition to course handouts, and the viewing and discussion of examples within session times, you will need to read some of the following. They will provide useful background information, but more importantly they develop much of the material which is covered throughout the course.

Beauman, N., A Very Great Profession, (Virago, 1983)

ed. T. Bennett, Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading, (RKP, 1990)

ed. T. Bennett et al, Popular Culture and Social Relations, (Open University Press, 1976).

R. Bromley, Lost Narratives: Popular Fictions, Politics and Recent History, (RKP, 1988).

J.G. Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery and Romance, (University of Chicago Press, 1976)

C. Cockburn, Bestseller, (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972)

U. Eco, The Role of the Reader, (Hutchinson, 1979).

R. Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, (Chatto & Windus, 1957)

ed. P. Humm, Popular Fictions, (Methuen, 1986)

Q.D. Leavis, Fiction and the Reading Public, (Chatto & Windus, 1930).

A. Light, Forever England, (RKP, 1992)

T. Modelski, Loving With a Vengeance: Mass-produced Fantasies for Women, (Methuen, 1982).

Open University, U203: Popular Culture, (Open University Press, 1981).

J. Palmer, Thrillers, (Edward Arnold, 1979)

J. Palmer, Potboilers: Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction. (RKP, 1991).

P. Parrinder, Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching, (Methuen, 1980).

ed. Christopher Pawling, Popular Fiction and Social Change, (Macmillan, 1984)

J. Sutherland, Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970s, (RKP, 1981).

A. Swingewood, The Myth of Mass Culture, (Macmillan, 1977)

K. Warole, Dockers and Detectives. Popular Reading, Popular Writing, (Verso, 1983).

C. Watson, Snobbery with Violence, (Penguin, 1975).

R. Williams, The Long Revolution, (Chatto & Windus, 1961)

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