Title
- Contributions To The Study Of Popular Culture, 0198-9871 ; No. 75
Attribution
edited by Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson ; foreword by Madeleine B. SternPublication Details
BookGreenwood Press2002Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.P63 S36 2002 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Many works now considered classics were scorned by critics when they were first published. This book examines the growing respect given to American fiction that was scorned by cultural gatekeepers such as librarians and educators, though these works were widely read by the American public. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Foreword / Madeleine B. Stern
- Ch. 1. Gresham’s Law of Culture: The Case of Mickey Spillane and Postwar America / Jesse Berrett
- Ch. 2. "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power / Sarah S. G. Frantz
- Ch. 3. Calamities of Convention in a Dime Novel Western / Janet Dean
- Ch. 4. Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula: Case Study in a Scorned Medium / Donald Palumbo
- Ch. 5. "Blood in the Sky": The World War II-Era Boys Series of R. Sidney Bowen / M. Paul Holsinger
- Ch. 6. "It is a pity it is no better": The Story Paper and Its Critics in Nineteenth-Century America / Dawn Fisk Thomsen
- Ch. 7. The Effect of Nineteenth-Century "Libraries" on the American Book Trade / Lydia Cushman Schurman
- Ch. 8. "The ragtag and bobtail of the fiction parade": Pulp Magazines and the Literary Marketplace / Erin A. Smith
- Ch. 9. From Abbott to Animorphs, from Godly Books to Goosebumps: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Series / Deidre Johnson
- Ch. 10. Poisoning Children’s Culture: Comics and Their Critics / Amy Kiste Nyberg
- Ch. 11. "Wise Censorship": Cultural Authority and the Scorning of Juvenile Series Books, 1890-1940 / Kathleen Chamberlain
- Ch. 12. Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled / Alison M. Scott
ISBN
- 0313320330
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