Recommended Literature – Zeta and Company

Here is a list of recommended literature:

A. E. Levin, Yuri Prizel, and D. S., ‘English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon’, Science Fiction Studies, 4.3 (1977), pp. 246–56 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/4239133>

Aaron Santesso, ‘Fascism and Science Fiction’, Science Fiction Studies, 41.1 (2014), pp. 136–62, http://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.41.1.0136

Allan, Janice, and others, eds., The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction, 1st edn (Routledge, 2020), doi:10.4324/9780429453342

Andrew Milner, ‘Science Fiction and the Literary Field’, Science Fiction Studies, 38.3 (2011), pp. 393–411, http://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.38.3.0393

Ashley, Michael, Yesterday’s Tomorrows: The Story of Classic British Science Fiction in 100 Books (British Library, 2020)

Bereit, Virginia F., ‘The Genre of Science Fiction’, Elementary English, 46.7 (1969), pp. 895–900 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/41386588>

Bergthaller, Hannes, ‘Cli-Fi and Petrofiction: Questioning Genre in the Anthropocene’, Amerikastudien / American Studies, 62.1 (2017), pp. 120–25 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/44982310>

Brayfield, Celia, and Duncan Sprott, Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion, Writers’ and Artists’ Companions, 1st ed (Bloomsbury, 2014)

Burrows, John, ‘All the Way Through: Testing for Authorship in Different Frequency Strata’, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 22.1 (2007), pp. 27–47, http://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqi067

Butler, Andrew M., ‘Between the “Deaths” of Science Fiction: A Skeptical View of the Possibility for Anti-Genres’, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 15.3 (59) (2004), pp. 208–16 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/43310245>

Canavan, Gerry, and Eric Carl Link, eds., The Cambridge History of Science Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2019) <https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316694374>

Davidge, Helen, ‘Data Science: Georgette Heyer’s Historical Novels and Her Readers’, in Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction, ed. by Samantha J. Rayner and Kim Wilkins (UCL Press, 2021), pp. 250–78, doi:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.19

Davis, Robert Murray, ‘The Frontiers of Genre: Science-Fiction Westerns (Les Frontières de Genre: Science-Fiction et Le Western)’, Science Fiction Studies, 12.1 (1985), pp. 33–41 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/4239660>

De Groot, Jerome, The Historical Novel, New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2010) <https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=289960>

GILL, R.B., ‘The Uses of Genre and the Classification of Speculative Fiction’, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, 46.2 (2013), pp. 71–85 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/44030329>

HEISE, URSULA K., ‘Terraforming for Urbanists’, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 49.1 (2016), pp. 10–25 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/44211685>

Kadonaga, Lisa, ‘Strange Countries and Secret Worlds in Ruth Rendell’s Crime Novels’, Geographical Review, 88.3 (1998), pp. 413–28, http://doi.org/10.2307/216017

Kamble, Jayashree, Eric Murphy Selinger, and Hsu-Ming Teo, eds., The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (Routledge, 2021) <https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=6296413>

Kristin Ramsdell, Romance Fiction (Libraries Unlimited, 1999) <http://archive.org/details/romancefictiongu00rams_0>

Lampadius, Stefan, The Human Future? Artificial Humans and Evolution in Anglophone Science Fiction of the 20th Century, Anglistische Forschungen (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020) <http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=6377975>

Landon, Brooks, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars (Taylor and Francis, 2014) <https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1683563>

Lee, Linda J., ‘Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales’, Marvels & Tales, 22.1 (2008), pp. 52–66 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/41388858>

Lijffijt, Jefrey, and others, ‘Significance Testing of Word Frequencies in Corpora’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 31.2 (2014), pp. 374–97, http://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu064

McKendry, Anne, Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2019) <https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2117546>

McNELLY, WILLIS E., ‘Archetypal Patterns in Science Fiction’, CEA Critic, 35.4 (1973), pp. 15–19 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/44378017>

Mickel, Emanuel J., ‘FICTIONAL HISTORY AND HISTORICAL FICTION’, Romance Philology, 66.1 (2012), pp. 57–96 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/44741973>

Nagy, Ladislav, ‘Historical Fiction as a Mixture of History and Romance: Towards the Genre Definition of the Historical Novel’, Prague Journal of English Studies, 3.1 (2014), pp. 7–17 <https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/pjes-2014-0014>

Nickerson, Catherine Ross, The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction, Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2010) <http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/99377/cover/9780521199377.jpg>

Paquot, Magali, and Yves Bestgen, ‘Distinctive Words in Academic Writing: A Comparison of Three Statistical Tests for Keyword Extraction’, in Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse, ed. by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier, and Marianne Hundt (Brill | Rodopi, 2009), doi:10.1163/9789042029101_014

Rabitsch, Stefan, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan L. Brandt, eds., Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (University Press of Mississippi, 2022) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv29g2h5v>

Rauscher, Janneke, ‘Grasping Cities through Literary Representations. A Mix of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Analyze Crime Novels’, Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 39.2 (148) (2014), pp. 68–102 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/24142683>

Regis, Pamela, A Natural History of the Romance Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fhkc1>

Regis, Pamela, A Natural History of the Romance Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2013) <https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=16FB40A7-4055-4DB3-8BF6-E751AC1AB561>

Rieder, John, ‘On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History’, Science Fiction Studies, 37.2 (2010), pp. 191–209 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/25746406>

Schöch, Christof, ‘Zeta für die kontrastive Analyse literarischer Texte. Theorie, Implementierung, Fallstudie’, in Quantitative Ansätze in den Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften. Systematische und historische Perspektiven, ed. by Toni Bernhart, and others (de Gruyter, 2018), pp. 77–94 <https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110523300/9783110523300-004/9783110523300-004.xml>

Shaw, Harry E., The Forms of Historical Fiction (Cornell University Press, 1983), JSTOR <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt207g768>

Sigelman, Lee, and William Jacoby, ‘The Not-So-Simple Art of Imitation: Pastiche, Literary Style, and Raymond Chandler’, Computers and the Humanities, 30.1 (1996), pp. 11–28 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/30204515>

van Dalen-Oskam, Karina, ‘Style, Gender, and Genre: Combining Multiple Perspectives’, in The Riddle of Literary Quality, A Computational Approach (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), pp. 158–87, doi:10.2307/jj.4470331.8

Wallace, Diana, The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

Westfahl, Gary, The Stuff of Science Fiction: Hardware, Settings, Characters (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2022)

Willett, R., The Naked City: Urban Crime Fiction in the USA, The Naked City: Urban Crime Fiction in the USA (Manchester University Press, 1996) <https://books.google.de/books?id=m8llAAAAMAAJ>

Wyatt, Neal, and others, ‘Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101’, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 47.2 (2007), pp. 120–26 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/20864838>

Zgorzelski, Andrzej, ‘Is Science Fiction a Genre of Fantastic Literature? (La Science-Fiction Est-Elle Un Genre de La Littérature Fantastique?)’, Science Fiction Studies, 6.3 (1979), pp. 296–303 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/4239286>

Zille, Tom, ‘Georgette Heyer and the Language of the Historical Novel’, in Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction, ed. by Samantha J. Rayner and Kim Wilkins (UCL Press, 2021), pp. 187–212, doi:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.16