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Guilty pleasures : popular novels and American audiences in the long nineteenth century / Hugh McIntosh.
Van Pelt Library PS374.P63 M35 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McIntosh, Hugh, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Literature and society.
- History.
- United States.
- Literature and society--United States--History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 171 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Examining reactions to bestselling fiction in America from 1850-1920, the period in which popular novels became national phenomena, Guilty Pleasures argues that ambivalence about public taste sparked a wide-ranging exploration of individualism and national identity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the not-so-great American novel
- Uncle Tom's Cabin and the unprivileged public sphere
- Ben-Hur: spectacles of belief
- British authorship, American advertising
- Questionable Americans abroad
- Unknowing American realism: Uncle Tom's Cabin to Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, and James Baldwin
- Afterword: the novel and America abroad now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813941646
- 0813941644
- 9780813941653
- 0813941652
- OCLC:
- 1035291273
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