Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Incorporated bodies: Dracula and professionalism; CHAPTER 2 The imperial treasure hunt: The Snake's Pass and the limits of romance; CHAPTER 3 'Mummie is become merchandise': the mummy story as commodity theory; CHAPTER 4 Across the great divide: modernism, popular fiction and the primitive; Afterword: the long goodbye; Notes; Index
Summary
Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years. The presence of a genre such as romance within modernism, he claims, should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture
