The back page / by Ott, Bill

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Confessions of a Back Page Junkie; Preface: Booklist, the Back Page, and Me; Books and Authors; Genre Fiction; Life at Booklist; Life beyond Books; Quizzes; Index…”
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Writers and miners : activism and imagery in America / by Duke, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Idiosyncratic activism while assisting "the other" -- Two Appalachians: Don West and Denise Giardina -- Coal mining in the novel, the short story, and genre fiction -- Stage and screen -- Coal mining fiction for the young -- Coal mining and the poetic imagination -- Voices from within the mining community.…”

Disability, literature, genre : representation and affect in contemporary fiction / by Cheyne, Ria

Table of Contents: “…Affect and the Disability Encounter -- Disability Studies, Emotion, and Exploitation -- Genre Fiction and Reflexive Representations -- Overview -- 1. …”
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After the celebration : Australian fiction 1989-2007 / by Gelder, Ken, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Literary Fiction -- 4. Genre Fiction -- 5. Is There a Women's Chapter? -- 6. …”
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Practical tips for writing popular fiction / by Carr, Robyn

Understanding Agatha Christie / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Agatha Christie : the seven paradoxes of her appeal -- Agatha Christie's life and puzzling persona -- The scofflaw of the golden age of detective fiction -- The hardboiled queen of the cozies -- The poet of genre fiction -- The tragicomic themes of Christie's murders -- The queer insularity of Christie's England -- Christie's murders at the movies . . . …”
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Books and social media: how the digital age is shaping the printed word / by Johnson, Miriam J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Foucault's Archaeology and McLuhan's Global Village and Rear-View Mirror as Analytic Strategies -- The Creative Possibilities of the Book -- The Rise of the Citizen Author -- The Role of Gender in the Digitally Social Communities -- Genre Fiction is Leading the Way -- The Role of Community in Writing Fiction Online: Social Platforms as Places Where Authors and Readers Meet -- The Power Relationships of the Book -- Understanding and Incorporating the Contradictions Around the Book.…”
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Radical theory, Caribbean reality : race, class and social domination / by Mills, Charles W.

Table of Contents: “…-- Red menace to the green island : the "Communist threat" to Jamaica in genre fiction, 1955-1969 -- Getting out of the cave : tensions between democracy and elitism in Marx's theory of cognitive liberation -- Smadditzin' -- Stuart Hall's changing representation of "race" -- Symposium on The racial contract.…”
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Genres of privacy in postwar America / by Rampell, Palmer

Sisters, schoolgirls, and sleuths : girls' series books in America / by Carpan, Carolyn

Table of Contents: “…Victorian and Vassar girls: nineteenth-century origins of girls' series fiction -- Schoolgirls and sorority sisters: progressive era high school and college series -- Adventure girls and the new woman: from the progressive era to the jazz generation -- The secret of Nancy Drew and her sister sleuths: -- Career girls and World War II -- Romances and revisions: the junior novel and the new Nancy Drew -- Romance meets reality: girls' series fiction and the second wave of feminism -- Sweet dreams for teen queens: romance renaissance in the Reagan era -- High school horrors! Genre fiction for teens.…”

Writers and miners : activism and imagery in America / by Duke, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Coal Mining in the Novel, the Short Story, and Genre Fiction; 4. Stage and Screen; 5. Coal Mining Fiction for the Young; 6. …”
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The post-apocalyptic novel in the twenty-first century : modernity beyond salvage / by Hicks, Heather J.

American literature in transition, 2000-2010 /

Table of Contents: “…Jackie Cuevas -- Formally conventional fiction / Adam Kelly -- Literary genre fiction / Andrew Hoberek -- New wave fabulism and hybrid science fictions / Kate Marshall -- The televisual novel / Phillip Maciak -- Neorealist fiction / Lee Konstantinou -- Memoir / Daniel Worden -- Historical fiction and the end of history / Mitchum Huehls -- Literature after 9/11 / Georgiana Banita -- The neuronovel / Stephen J. …”

Graphic novels beyond the basics : insights and issues for libraries /

Table of Contents: “…The allure of the superhero / Michael Niederhausen -- Japanese manga / Robin Brenner -- Girls, women, and comics / Trina Robbins -- American comics : beyond the superhero, part one, genre fiction / Michael R. Lavin -- American comics : beyond the superhero, part two, general fiction and nonfiction / Michael R. …”

William Clark Russell and the Victorian nautical novel : gender, genre and the marketplace / by Nash, Andrew, 1972-

Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915 Rereading the fin de siècle.

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Media, technology and the imagination /

Table of Contents: “…On the design of mental organisms -- The aggregate spectator : 125 years of sights, sounds and moving pictures -- Dante, damnation, and the undead : how the conception of hell has changed in literature from the Inferno to the zombie apocalypse -- Nomina nuda tenemus : Jonathan Safran Foer, finding meaning within empty names or (re)construction of deconstruction -- Sucker Punch : a carnivalesque steampunk fairy tale -- The graphic novel : teaching and producing texts -- Genre fiction and the academy : interview with author Michael Arnzen by Chun Lee -- Milton Tube : theoretical implications and practical uses of Paradise Lost web adaptations -- The Frenchman at the kitchen table : the influence of Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida on Bachelder's modern American literary family -- Chris Bachelder's consumers and corporations : Bear v. …”
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The decline of the novel / by Bottum, J.

Jameson and literature : the novel, history, and contemporary reading practices / by Cogle, Jarrad

American Lives. by Hornung, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…JOCHEN ECKE -- Grant Morrison's 'Fiction Suits': Comics Autobiography as Genre Fiction/Genre Fiction as Comics AutobiographyLUKAS ETTER -- On the Drawing Board: The Many Autobiographical "Wedges" of Alison Bechdel; EVA BOESENBERG -- Family Business: Death in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home; Media and American Lives; NASSIM WINNIE BALESTRINI -- Photography as Online Life Writing: Miranda July's and Harrell Fletcher's Learning to Love You More (2002-09); BIRGIT M. …”
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