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Popular fiction remains in some ways a rather nebulous category: at what point does a “literary” novel become an item of popular literature or a sexually explicit novel become pornographic rather than (or as well as) popular fiction? The chronology in this volume starts with Walter Scott's Waverley of 1814 and continues to Belle de Jour's The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl of 2005 (Fifty Shades of Grey appeared too late for inclusion). The contemporary popularity of Scott and later of Dickens equalled and often outshone any of the hysteria we observe today around televised soap operas;...
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