İED 6/794 Popular Literature
Tentative Reading List
Prof. Dr. A. Deniz BOZER
Secondary/theoretical/critical material on the concept “popular”, the term “popular
litearture”, and the sub-genres such as the sensation novel, detective fiction, romantic
fiction, neo-Gothic fiction, science fiction, the historical novel and dystopian fiction will
be extensively studied. In addition to the primary sources from English popular literature
listed below, some American (US) and Turkish (TR) writers will also be introduced.
I. The Sensation Novel
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley’s Secret
Ellen Wood: East Lynne
II. Detective Fiction
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot)
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple)
Sir Arthur Canon Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon (US)
Ahmet Ümit Başkomser Nevzat 3: Davulcu Davut'u Kim Öldürdü? (TR)
III. Romantic Fiction
Barbara Cartland: The Enchanted Waltz
Victoria Holt: The Pride of the Peacock
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead (a romantic novel on individualist philosophy) (US)
IV. Neo-Gothic Fiction
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Susan Hill: The Woman in Black
Anne Rice: The Vampire Chronicles (US)
V. Science –Fiction
H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
A.C. Clarke: 2001, A Space Odysey
Isaac Asimov: Robots and Empire (US)
VI. Historical Fiction
Rose Tremain: Restoration
Mehmet Coral: Ben, El Fakir-Ül-Hakir Sinan
VII. Dystopian Fiction
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (US)
A Psychological Thriller Stephen King: The Shining (US)
A Roman a clé Jack Kerouac: On the Road (a Beat generation novel) (US)