Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes
Subtitle: dime novels, series books, and paperbacks
By: Larry E. Sullivan, Lydia Cushman Schurman, editors.
Contributors: Sullivan, Larry E.; Schurman, Lydia Cushman.
Publisher: Haworth Press; Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism; Dime novels -- Publishing -- United States -- History; Paperbacks -- Publishing -- United States -- History; Literature publishing -- United States -- History; Books and reading -- United States -- History; Series (Publications) -- Bibliography
Description: Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes illuminates the significance of dime novels, series books, and paperbacks by exploring their historical backgrounds and analyzing their texts. Popular heroes and mysterious heroines abound as they are subjected to the scholar's eye and explored as literary artifact, symbol, and myth. Readers will be enthralled as relationships are delineated among the three genres, between culture and popular fiction, and between history and fact. The result is a one-of-a-kind study of the evolutionary development and importance of these three forms of popular culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Has also been published as Primary sources & original works, volume 4, numbers 1/2 and 3/4, 1996"--T.p. verso.