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Scorned literature : essays on the history and criticism of popular mass-produced fiction in America
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Scorned literature : essays on the history and criticism of popular mass-produced fiction in America

Author: Lydia Cushman Schurman; Deidre Johnson
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Series: Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 75
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lydia Cushman Schurman; Deidre Johnson
ISBN: 0313320330 9780313320330
OCLC Number: 47216269
Description: xviii, 245 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Gresham's law of culture : the case of Mickey Spillane and postwar America / Jesse Berrett -- "Expressing" herself : the romance novel and the feminine will to power / Sarah S.G. Frantz -- Calamities of convention in a dime novel western / Janet Dean -- Marvel's Tomb of Dracula : case study in a scorned medium / Donald Palumbo -- "Blood in the sky" : the World War II-era boys series of R. Sidney Bowen / M. Paul Holsinger -- "It is a pity it is no better" : the story paper and its critics in nineteenth-century America / Dawn Fisk Thomsen -- The effect of nineteenth-century "libraries" on the American book trade / Lydia Cushman Schurman -- "The ragtag and bobtail of the fiction parade" : pulp magazines and the literary marketplace / Erin A. Smith -- From Abbott to Animorphs, from godly books to Goosebumps : the nineteenth-century origins of modern series / Dierdre Johnson -- Poisoning children's culture : comics and their critics / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- "Wise censorship" : cultural authority and the scorning of juvenile series books, 1890-1940 / Kathleen Chamberlain -- Romance in the stacks, or, popular romance fiction imperiled / Alison M. Scott.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 75
Responsibility: edited by Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson ; foreword by Madeleine B. Stern.

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