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The first book length study of the conceptualization and representation of islands in popular fiction.

List of contents

Introduction: Reading Genre Islands/ Part I: Island Crime, Crime Islands/ 1 The Body on the Island: The Insular Geography of Crime Fiction/ 2 Whodunit? Agatha Christie's Islands/ 3 The Postcolonial Geography of Island Crime: G. W. Kent's Solomon Island Series/ Part II: Island Thrillers, Thriller Islands/ 4 Top Secret Islands: The Geography of Espionage and Adventure/ 5 Paradise Threatened: The Bond Islands/ 6 The Proximity of Islands: Dirk Pitt's Insular Adventures / Part III: Island Romance, Romance Islands/ 7 I ¿Islands: The Emotional Geography of Popular Romance/ 8 Love on the Isle of Man: Margaret Evans Porter's The Islanders Series/ 9 The Island Happy Ever After: Nora Roberts's Three Sisters Island Trilogy/ Part IV: Island Fantasy, Fantasy Islands/ 10 Islands of the World: The Archipelagic Geography of Fantasy Fiction/ 11 Putting Islands on the Fantasy Map: Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea/ 12 An Imaginary Water World: Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders Trilogy/ Epilogue/ Bibliography/ Index

About the author

Ralph Crane is Professor and Head of English at the University of Tasmania. He has written or edited over twenty books, and published numerous journal articles and book chapters, mainly in the area of colonial and postcolonial fictions. His recent work includes several publications in the area of island studies.

Summary

The first book length study of the conceptualization and representation of islands in popular fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Crane, Crane Ralph, Lisa Fletcher, Fletcher Lisa
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2016
• EAN: 9781783482054
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-205-4
• Series: Rethinking the Island; Rethinking the Island
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Cultural Geography;cultural Studies;Place and Space