I’m presenting at this year’s conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing at the University of Reading. My talk is a first stab at a British-focused counterpart to my work on US genre fiction’s origins: Yank Mags and Mushrooms: Genre Fiction in mid-century Britain Tuesday, July 2, 11:00 a.m. in Palmer 1.05 When did popular fiction become genre fiction? Despite the proliferation of formulaic fictions in Britain from the 1890s onwards, the self-conscious ...
