Gelder, Ken

First name

Ken

Last names

Gelder

Works

(2004) Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Kathleen Winsor

Georgette Heyer

Stephanie Laurens

historical romance

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Weaver, Rachael

(2010) Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature Southerly 70.2:82-95

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

national identity

(2016) New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan