The Age of Dimes and Pulps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Dimes and Pulps write by Jeremy Agnew. This book was released on 2018-07-25. The Age of Dimes and Pulps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality--publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly. This vast body of "disposable literature" has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost--the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960
Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960 write by Nathan Vernon Madison. This book was released on 2013-02-18. Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) of the 1920s to about 1960, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before World War I but intensified afterwards. These depictions were transferred to America's "new" enemies, both following U.S. entry into the Second World War and during the early stages of the Cold War. Anti-foreign narratives showed a growing emphasis on ideological, as opposed to racial or ethnic, differences--and early signs of the coming "multiculturalism"--indicating that pure racism was not the sole reason for nativist rhetoric in popular literature. The process of change in America's nativist sentiments, so virulent after the First World War, are revealed by the popular, inexpensive escapism of the time, pulp magazines and comic books.
Empire's Nursery
Empire's Nursery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire's Nursery write by Brian Rouleau. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Empire's Nursery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How the West was fun -- Serialized Impreialism -- Empire's amateurs -- Internationalist impulses -- Dollar diplomacy for the price of a few nickels -- Comic book cold war.
True Story
True Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook True Story write by Shanon Fitzpatrick. This book was released on 2022-07-19. True Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder turned publishing mogul, Shanon Fitzpatrick charts the rise and export of US mass media and consumer culture. Macfadden’s magazines—featuring fitness tips, celebrity gossip, and sensational “true” stories—created an enduring editorial template and powered worldwide demand for interactive American media.
The Dime Novel in Children's Literature
The Dime Novel in Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dime Novel in Children's Literature write by Vicki Anderson. This book was released on 2014-10-16. The Dime Novel in Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
