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Scorned literature : essays on the history and criticism of popular mass-produced fiction in America / edited by Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson ; foreword by Madeleine B. Stern.
Van Pelt Library PS374.P63 S36 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of popular culture 0198-9871 ; no. 75.
- Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 75
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American fiction.
- Popular literature--United States--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Popular literature.
- Criticism--United States--History--20th century.
- Criticism.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 245 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Gresham's Law of Culture: The Case of Mickey Spillane and Postwar America / Jesse Berrett 1
- Chapter 2 "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power / Sarah S.G. Frantz 17
- Chapter 3 Calamities of Convention in a Dime Novel Western / Janet Dean 37
- Chapter 4 Marvel's Tomb of Dracula: Case Study in a Scorned Medium / Donald Palumbo 51
- Chapter 5 "Blood in the Sky": The World War II-Era Boys Series of R. Sidney Bowen / M. Paul Holsinger 69
- Chapter 6 "It is a pity it is no better": The Story Paper and Its Critics in Nineteenth-Century America / Dawn Fisk Thomsen 83
- Chapter 7 The Effect of Nineteenth-Century "Libraries" on the American Book Trade / Lydia Cushman Schurman 97
- Chapter 8 "The ragtag and bobtail of the fiction parade": Pulp Magazines and the Literary Marketplace / Erin A. Smith 123
- Chapter 9 From Abbott to Animorphs, from Godly Books to Goosebumps: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Series / Deidre Johnson 147
- Chapter 10 Poisoning Children's Culture: Comics and Their Critics / Amy Kiste Nyberg 167
- Chapter 11 "Wise Censorship": Cultural Authority and the Scorning of Juvenile Series Books, 1890-1940 / Kathleen Chamberlain 187
- Chapter 12 Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled / Alison M. Scott 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313320330
- OCLC:
- 47216269
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