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Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure (Reading Popular Fiction)

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Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure (Reading Popular Fiction)

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A collection of essays, all of which are concerned to develop analyses where sexual politics and gender concerns are regarded as central to understanding popular narrative. There are essays on the western, melodrama, crime fiction, political thriller, horror and science fiction.

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Length 219 Pages
Released April 1, 1989
Identifier (ISBN) 8875756
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Derek Longhurst is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Derek Longhurst can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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