Acknowledgments	7
	Contents	9
	About the Editor	11
	Notes on Contributors	12
	List of Figures	15
	List of Table	16
	Introduction: Space, Place, and Popular Fiction	17
	Notes	23
	Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller	25
	Notes	39
	Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica	41
	Scale, Setting, and Place: Categorizing “Antarctic Thrillers”	44
	“The Most Murderous Environment on Earth”: Matching Place and Genre	49
	“The Hovercraft Raced Across the Ice Plain”: Resisting Place in Ice Station	53
	Notes	57
	Chronotopic Reading of Crime Fiction: Montréal in La Trace de l’Escargot	60
	Chronotopes: The Connectedness of Time and Space	63
	La Trace de l’Escargot and Montréal Crime Fiction	65
	The Chronotope of the Investigation	66
	The Reticular Chronotope: Space/Network/Speed	68
	The Historical Chronotope: Time Compressed in Space	70
	The Dialogism of Chronotopes and the Spatiality of the Novel	72
	Notes	74
	Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930–1950: Mary Scott’s Barbara Stories	77
	Notes	90
	The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love	93
	Notes	105
	Ghost-Al Erosion: Beaches and the Supernatural in Two Stories by M.R. James	108
	“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”	112
	“A Warning to the Curious”	115
	Notes	120
	Pagan Places: Contemporary Paganism, British Fantasy Fiction, and the Case of Ryhope Wood	122
	British Paganism and British Fantasy Fiction	123
	Mythago Wood	127
	Notes	135
	Tolkien’s Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings	137
	A Literary Cartography of Middle-Earth	138
	The Eye of Sauron	140
	The Conspiracy of the Ring	144
	Fantastic Maps	148
	Notes	150
	Commuting to Another World: Spaces of Transport and Transport Maps in Urban Fantasy	153
	Cartographic Imaginaries and Subway Maps	154
	Spatial Tropes in Speculative Genres	157
	Narrative Mapping	163
	Notes	166
	Mapping Monstrosity: Metaphorical Geographies in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy	169
	China Miéville: Part-Time Scholar, Would-Be Politician, Maker-of-Worlds	171
	A Geocriticism of Bas-Lag and Its Politically Transgressive Monstrosity	173
	The Politics of Place and Space in Bas-Lag	174
	The (Grotesque) Body as Zone of Geopolitics	178
	Notes	184
	Air Force One: Popular (Non)fiction in Flight	189
	Airport Fiction	190
	Product Description	191
	Popular (Non)fiction	202
	Notes	204
	States of Nostalgia in the Genre of the Future: Panem, Globalization, and Utopia in The Hunger Games Trilogy	206
	Notes	220
	Index	223