These include chapters on Agatha's Christie's islands, the role of the island in 'Bondspace,' the romantic islophilia of Nora Roberts's Three Sisters Island series, ...
Forthcoming December 2016
Island Genres, Genre Islands Conceptualization and Representation in Popular Fiction By Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher This is the first book length study of the conceptualization and representation of islands in popular fiction. December 2016 | HB £80/$120 9781783482054| eBook £24.99/$38.99 9781783482078 Island Genres, Genre Islands moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers. Through a focus on four key genres —crime fiction, thrillers, popular romance fiction, and fantasy fiction—Crane and Fletcher show that genre is fundamental to both the textual representation of real and imagined islands and to actual knowledges and experiences of islands. The book offers broad, comparative readings of the significance of islandness in each of the four genres as well as detailed case studies of major authors and texts. These include c hapters on Agatha’s Christie’s islands, the role of the island in ‘Bondspace,’ the romantic islophilia of Nora Roberts’s Three Sisters Island series, and the archipelagic geography of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea. Crane and Fletcher’s book will appeal to specialists in literary studies and cultural geography, as well as in island studies. 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 Authors Ralph Crane is Professor of English at the University of Tasmania. He has written or edited nineteen books, and published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the area of colonial and postcolonial fictions. His recent work includes several publications in the area of island studies. Lisa Fletcher is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity (Ashgate, 2008) and numerous journal articles and book chapters about islands and literature. Lisa is an Editor on the Journal of Popular Romance Studies and a member of the editorial board of Island Studies Journal. To Pre-Order: For deliveries to the Americas www.rowman.com For deliveries to the UK and rest of the world www.rowmaninternational.com
