Popular Fiction after Richardson

Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction.

Medical romance fiction is a subgenre of popular romance fiction that features medical professionals in their work environment. This essay explores the way professionalism is portrayed in popular medical romance fiction written during the early twenty-first century, a period of significant disruption in both the public image and self-understanding of organized medicine. I analyze a selection of...

The Evolution of the Vampire in Fiction and Popular Culture

Bad girls and biopolitics: abortion, popular fiction, and population control.

Astronomy , Science Fiction and Popular Culture : 1277 to 2001 ( And beyond )

stories, myths and tales can make ideas a part of popular culture. rea at religious figures have taught with parables; we use fables and fairy tales to teach our children about life; and it has been argued that even the ancient Greek myths might have been deliberate devices for organizing and transmitting information about the natural world to non-scientifically oriented people [I]. Once an ide...

Genre, style and culture in the translation into French of popular fiction

This paper considers two authors, Ian Fleming and Dashiell Hammett, who contributed to the popular genres respectively of spy fiction and crime fiction. We examine the changing reception in France of the authors by analysing some examples of how their books were translated when they were published and at the present time. The discussion centres on a consideration, on the one hand of the books’ ...