Scorned Literature

Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America
Herausgeber: Schurman, Lydia; Johnson, Deidre

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many works now considered classics were scorned by critics when they were first published. While some of these works received little attention when initially released, others were enormously popular. So too, there is a large body of popular American fiction that is only now beginning to receive critical attention. 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. The volume looks at such scorned literature as dime novels, comic books, juvenile fiction, romances novels, and pulp magazines. Expert contributors discuss what these works say about the mores and morals of the people who so avidly read them and the values of those who sought to censor them. The book covers the period from the 1830s to the 1950s and shows how popular literature reflected such concerns as feminism and anti-feminism, notions of the heroic and unheroic, and violence and racism. In doing so, the volume helps fill a gap in scholarship about literature that was clearly important to a large number of readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780313320330
• ISBN-10: 0313320330
• Artikelnr.: 21363638

Autorenporträt

LYDIA CUSHMAN SCHURMAN is Professor Emerita of English at Northern Virginia Community College and has published widely on nineteenth-century popular fiction. DEIDRE JOHNSON is Associate Professor of English at West Chester University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in children's literature. She has published extensively on Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer syndicate and is associate editor of Dime Novel Round-Up.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreward by Madeline B. Stern Introduction by Deidre A. Johnson and Lydia
Cushman Schurman Gresham's Law of Culture: The Case of Mickey Spillane and
Postwar America by Jesse Berrett "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel
and the Feminine Will to Power by Sarah S. G. Frantz Calamities of
Convention in a Dime Novel Western by Janet Dean Marvel's Tomb of Dracula:
Case Study in a Scorned Medium by Donald Palumbo "Blood in the Sky": The
World War II Era Boys Series of R. Sidney Bowen by M. Paul Holsinger "It is
a pity it is no better": The Story Paper and Its Critics in
Nineteenth-Century America by Dawn Fisk Thommsen The Effect of
Nineteenth-Century "Libraries" on the American Book Trade by Lydia Cushman
Schurman "The ragtag and bobtail of the fiction parade": Pulp Magazines and
the Literary Marketplace by Erin A. Smith From Abbott to Animorphs, from
Godly Books to Goosebumps: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Series
by Deidre A. Johnson Poisoning Children's Culture: Comics and their Critics
by Amy Kiste Nyberg "Wise Censorship": Cultural Authority and the Scorning
of Juvenile Series Fiction, 1890-1940 by Kathleen Chamberlain Romance in
the Stacks; or Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled by Alison M. Scott Index