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9780812970951 | Random House Inc, April 10, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDE TO THE COMMON FEATURES OF STORIES MILLIONS LOVE What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common?
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9781439906675 | Temple Univ Pr, November 18, 2011, cover price $76.50
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9781439906682 | Temple Univ Pr, November 18, 2011, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up.
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9780394544489 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1988, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Analyses American literature from the first half of the nineteenth century, including many lesser known works, and discusses writings of various geographical regions and both sexes
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9780199782840 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 29, 2011), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature.
9780674065659 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1989), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Analyses American literature from the first half of the nineteenth century, including many lesser known works, and discusses writings of various geographical regions and both sexes
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9780812241747 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, May 19, 2009, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Late nineteenth-century America saw an explosion in mass culture—from sensationalist tabloid newspapers to amusement parks to Wild West shows.
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9780521450348 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance examines the response of American leftist writers of the 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression.
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9780521102223 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 9, 2009), cover price $41.00 | About this edition: The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance examines the response of American leftist writers of the 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression.
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9781593761882 | Counterpoint, April 1, 2008, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: For more than 50 years, Leslie Fiedler played a pivotal role in the development of American literary culture.
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9781593762667 | Soft Skull Pr, February 1, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Despite his often-unacknowledged influence, academics, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read Leslie Fiedler’s work and draw on its concepts.
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9780199214891 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 3, 2007, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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9781580421843 | Revised edition (Cardoza Pub, April 3, 2007), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers-The Shadow, Tarzan, Doc Savage, Captain Future, The Spider, Zorro.
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9781591024033 | Prometheus Books, April 4, 2006, cover price $21.98 | About this edition: In 1787, Benjamin Rush cautioned that public punishments were dangerous to the social and legal authority of the new nation.
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9780786418435 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 30, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Frequently identified as sensational literature filled with violent characters, intricately woven plots, changing identities and confusion between issues of right and wrong, many considered the Dime Novel guilty of sending serious and improper messages to the day’s impressionable youth.
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9780809548903 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers-The Shadow, Tarzan, Doc Savage, Captain Future, The Spider, Zorro.
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9780889628120 | Subsequent edition (Mosaic Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers.
9780889625853 | Mosaic Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers.
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9781555535575 | Northeastern Univ Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: These original essays shed light on a group of American women writers of the 1920s who negotiated the delicate balance between popular and critical success.
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9781555535568 | Northeastern Univ Pr, May 22, 2003, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: These original essays shed light on a group of American women writers of the 1920s who negotiated the delicate balance between popular and critical success.
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9780820324845 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building.
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9780820325217 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building.
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9780520223141 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans.
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9780520229457 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $31.95
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9780760725597 | Silver Lining Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Using the annual hardcover best seller lists from 'The Bookman' and then 'Publishers Weekly,' examines twentieth-century American social, cultural, and historical trends through the lens of popular literature.
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9780811830201 | Chronicle Books Llc, August 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From homicidal homos to locked-up lesbians, and almost every sexually dangerous combination in between, Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback is the first complete expose of queer sexuality in mid-twentieth century paperbacks.
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9780870541797 | Arkham House Pub, May 1, 2001, cover price $34.95
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9780313308420 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 2000, cover price $131.95 | About this edition: This study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas.
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9781566397681 | Temple Univ Pr, May 12, 2000, cover price $80.50 | About this edition: In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines.
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9781566397698 | Temple Univ Pr, May 15, 2000, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines.
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9781560988137 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: B-movies, crime novels, science fiction- all of these forms of mass media came into their own in the 1950s.
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9780786408412 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The "Beat Generation" that emerged after World War II and reached its zenith in the 1960s represented an era of new perspectives.
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9780807825211 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other ephemeral printed materials brought exuberance and theatricality to public culture and made the practice of reading more controversial.
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9780807848326 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other ephemeral printed materials brought exuberance and theatricality to public culture and made the practice of reading more controversial.
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9780806132037 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $39.95
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9780879727895 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, January 1, 1999, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture.
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9780879727901 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture.
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Product Description: With unique access to several large private collections, Dr. Sova has extracted scenes and chapters from each decade's pulp fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and comments with wit, erudition, and light on the changing evolution of this heretofore unexamined genre of lesbian literature...read more
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9780571199174 | Faber & Faber, December 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: With unique access to several large private collections, Dr.
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