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Issue 2.2 Previous Issues

Remix Culture and the Literary Mashup

Jacob Murphy March 26, 2013 8 Comments Adam Roberts adaptation studies Android Karenina BBC costume drama Charles Dickens Coleridge Cook death of the author Franz Kafka Great Expectations Harry Potter parodies hybrid text I Am Scrooge Jane Austen literary adaptation literary canon literary genre literary mashup Lolcatz mashup fiction Meowmorphosis Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Quirk Books Roland Barthes Seth Graeme-Smith The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

2009 saw the release of the first mainstream literary mashup – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graeme-Smith. This particular book has produced a prequel (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…

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Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Railways and Fiction

Christopher Daley January 12, 2013 6 Comments Agatha Christie Andrew Martin Anticipations British fiction British popular imagination Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Down in a Tube at Midnight Emile Zola H. G. Wells industrialisation Jim Stringer series Kraftwerk Leo Tolstoy London Underground Penguin series of railway writings rail fare hikes railways Raymond Williams Stop HS2 Campaign The Jam Trans-Europe Express Victorian novelists

Christopher Daley Railways are news. On the one hand, they are the source of consternation as above inflation fare rises couple with the perceived drudgery…

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Issue 1.7 Previous Issues

The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading

Michael J. Collins December 9, 2012 15 Comments A Visit From the Goon Squad Allen Tate American short story annual canonicity Charles Dickens China Mieville consumption digital culture e-readers Edgar Allen Poe F. R. Leavis flash fiction Frank O'Connor generic instability history of the book Jennifer Egan John Crowe Ransom Kindle literary canon literary copyright literary fiction literary genre literary marketplace litfic Louisa May Alcott magazine market pressures mass market periodicals Moby Dick Nathaniel Hawthorne print culture published fiction Raymond Williams seasonal periodical Short story The Man Booker Prize the novel form Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern twitter fiction Washington Irving

Over the last few decades, the short story has been the subject of a fierce medical dispute. Observers have gathered to ask, like Ishmael of the Leviathan in Moby-Dick…

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