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Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes - Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks (Paperback)
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Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes - Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks (Paperback)
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Despite efforts of contemporary reformers to curb the availability
of dime novels, series books, and paperbacks, Pioneers, Passionate
Ladies, and Private Eyes reveals how many readers used them as
means of resistance and how fictional characters became models for
self-empowerment. These literary genres, whose value has long been
underestimated, provide fascinating insight into the formation of
American popular culture and identity. Through these mass-produced,
widely read books, Deadwood Dick, Old Sleuth, and Jessie James
became popular heroes that fed the public's imagination for the
last western frontier, detective tales, and the myth of the outlaw.
Women, particularly those who were poor and endured hard lives,
used the literature as means of escape from the social, economic,
and cultural suppression they experienced in the nineteenth
century. In addition to the insight this book provides into texts
such as "The Bride of the Tomb," the Nick Carter Series, and Edward
Stratemeyer's rendition of the Lizzie Borden case, readers will
find interesting information about: the roles of illustrations and
covers in consumer culture Bowling Green's endeavor to digitize
paperback and pulp magazine covers bibliographical problems in
collecting and controlling series books the effects of mass market
fiction on young girls Louisa May Alcott's pseudonym and authorship
of three dime novels special collections competition among
publishersA collection of work presented at a symposium held by the
Library of Congress, Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes
makes an outstanding contribution to redefining the role of popular
fiction in American life.
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