Chapter 1 Introduction, Humm Peter, Paul Stigant, Peter Widdowson; Chapter 2 Literature and the Grub Street myth, Kathy Macdermott; Chapter 3 Beggars and thieves: The Beggar's Opera as crime drama, Michael Denning; Chapter 4 The moment of Pickwick, or the production of a commodity text, Norman Feltes; Chapter 5 History and ‘literary value’: Adam Bede and Salem Chapel, Brooker Peter, Paul Stigant, Peter Widdowson; Chapter 6 What shall we do with the starving baby? – Edward Jenkins and Ginx's Baby, Brian Maidment; Chapter 7 Fictional suburbia, Kate Flint; Chapter 8 Philip Gibbs and the newsreel novel, Stuart Laing; Chapter 9 The gentry, bourgeois hegemony and popular fiction: Rebecca and Rogue Male, Roger Bromley; Chapter 10 Agincourt 1944: readings in the Shakespeare myth, Graham Holderness; Chapter 11 Production and reproduction: the case of Frankenstein, Paul O'Flinn; Chapter 12 Re-imagining the fairy tales: Angela Carter's bloody chambers, Patricia Duncker; Chapter 13 Marxism and popular fiction, Tony Bennett;