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Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950 (Hardcover)
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Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular
of leisure activities. Light fiction--romances, thrillers,
westerns--was the sustenance of millions in wartime and in peace.
This lively and scholarly study examines the size and complexion of
the reading public and the development of an increasingly
commercialized publishing industry through the first half of the
twentieth century. Joseph McAleer uses a variety of sources, from
the Mass-Observation Archive to previously confidential publishers'
records, to explore the nature of popular fiction and its readers.
He analyzes the editorial policies which created the success of
Mills & Boon, publishers of romantic fiction, and D. C.
Thomson, the genius behind The Hotspur and other magazines for
boys, and also charts the rise and fall of the Religious Tract
Society, creator of the legendary Boy's Own Paper, as a popular
publisher.
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