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Product Description: The subjects treated in this symposium have one major characteristic in common, that they have recently, or relatively recently, enjoyed high popularity among readers. Also, they have received from substantial to torrents of comment. 

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9780879720773 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, November 1, 1976, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The subjects treated in this symposium have one major characteristic in common, that they have recently, or relatively recently, enjoyed high popularity among readers.

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Product Description: The subjects treated in this symposium have one major characteristic in common, that they have recently, or relatively recently, enjoyed high popularity among readers. Also, they have received from substantial to torrents of comment.

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9780879720780 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, December 1, 1976, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The subjects treated in this symposium have one major characteristic in common, that they have recently, or relatively recently, enjoyed high popularity among readers.

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Traces the development of the American novel during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries drawing attention to the evolution of literary movements from sentimentalism to modernism

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9780805773101 | Twayne Pub, July 1, 1980, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of the American novel during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries drawing attention to the evolution of literary movements from sentimentalism to modernism

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Product Description: This book is a study of Burrough's first six Tarzan books, revealing intriguing parallels between Tarzan's story and the sagas of the heroes of ancient Greece and Rome.

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9780313225307 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1981, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: This book is a study of Burrough's first six Tarzan books, revealing intriguing parallels between Tarzan's story and the sagas of the heroes of ancient Greece and Rome.

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Looks at the mass market paperbacks of the forties and fifties, shows the lurid covers commonly used, and discusses the most popular writers of the period

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9780442231408 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, July 1, 1981, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Looks at the mass market paperbacks of the forties and fifties, shows the lurid covers commonly used, and discusses the most popular writers of the period

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Product Description: Who Is in the House? provides the first scholarly historical and psychological analysis of both the content and the appeal of women's popular fiction in America during the past two centuries. Principal attention is given to the power of the images of home and mother, and to the theme of conflict between autonomy and dependence in the female characters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780444990815 | Praeger Pub Text, September 1, 1981, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Who Is in the House?

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Product Description: This study of the rescue motif in popular American novels before World War I focuses on the rescue convention as part of the romantic plot of the novels. The rescue as a structured convention that controls the movement of the romantic plot appears in all types of domestic novels, gothics, dime novels, historical romances, and westerns...read more

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9780879722111 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, November 1, 1982, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This study of the rescue motif in popular American novels before World War I focuses on the rescue convention as part of the romantic plot of the novels.

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9780879722128 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This study of the rescue motif in popular American novels before World War I focuses on the rescue convention as part of the romantic plot of the novels.

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Looks at the phenomenon of the paperback revolution and examines the impact and implications of papberbacks on modern American culture in the past and future

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9780395343982 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Looks at the phenomenon of the paperback revolution and examines the impact and implications of papberbacks on modern American culture in the past and future

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Product Description: Discusses the innovation of paperback printing in the mid-twentieth century. The advent of paperback books revolutionized reading in America after World War II. xviii , 430 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo..

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9780395355350 | Houghton Mifflin, June 18, 1984, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Discusses the innovation of paperback printing in the mid-twentieth century.

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9780195035285 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 14, 1985, cover price $38.00

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9780195041316 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 7, 1986), cover price $61.00

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Analyzes the best-sellers published between 1945 and 1975 to determine how American dreams of success have changed, and discusses the issues these novels raise about modern life

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9780710099341 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1985, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Analyzes the best-sellers published between 1945 and 1975 to determine how American dreams of success have changed, and discusses the issues these novels raise about modern life

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Product Description: Books and reading -- United States -- History. Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.

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9780824056674 | Taylor & Francis, November 1, 1985, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Books and reading -- United States -- History.

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Product Description: William Darby gives us a comprehensive and (mostly) sympathetic reading of over fifty novels and a few movies from the 1950s. He examines titles such as Mandingo, The Invisible Man, I the Jury, Catcher in the Rye, Battle Cry, The Caine Mutiny, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, The Manchurian Candidate, Hawaii, The Bramble Bush, Peyton Place, Ten North Frederick, A Stone for Danny Fisher, The Bad Seed, Not as a Stranger, The Blackboard Jungle, From Here to Eternity, and Compulsion...read more

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9780879723897 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 1, 1987, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: William Darby gives us a comprehensive and (mostly) sympathetic reading of over fifty novels and a few movies from the 1950s.

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Product Description: A study of nineteenth century American popular fiction and working class culture.

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9780860911784 | Verso Books, November 1, 1987, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A study of nineteenth century American popular fiction and working class culture.

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9780860918899 | Verso Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A study of nineteenth century American popular fiction and working class culture.

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Product Description: This volume celebrates yesterday’s pulp magazines and their heroes and heroines. Readers will acquaint themselves with such famous magazine titles as The Shadow, The Black Mask, Weird Tales, and others as obscure as Scientific Detective Monthly and the sensuous Scarlet Adventuress of dim reputation...read more

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9780879724498 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 1, 1989, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This volume celebrates yesterday’s pulp magazines and their heroes and heroines.

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9780879724504 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, June 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This volume celebrates yesterday’s pulp magazines and their heroes and heroines.

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Offers profiles of Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robin, and Johnny Mercer

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9780195064087 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 11, 1990, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Offers profiles of Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robin, and Johnny Mercer

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9780195074734 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 25, 1992), cover price $44.99

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Product Description: Book by Beacham, Walton

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9780933833265 | Beacham Pub, April 1, 1991, cover price $159.00 | About this edition: Book by Beacham, Walton

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Product Description: This text takes a close look at the relationship between popular and serious fiction, with some surprising results. There are comparisons, for instance, between Norwegian immigrant and emigrant novels, or novels dealing extensively with mental retardation; examination on how a novel can spin out of formula to become truly serious ("The Great Gatsby"), or not always successfully become serious ("The Sun Also Rises")...read more

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9780773494961 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This text takes a close look at the relationship between popular and serious fiction, with some surprising results.

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Lists hundreds of books that have made the famous list, and offers facts about the publishing industry, authors, and the list itself

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9780898154849 | Ten Speed Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Lists hundreds of books that have made the famous list, and offers facts about the publishing industry, authors, and the list itself

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Product Description: Book by Diffley, Kathleen

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9780820314457 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Book by Diffley, Kathleen

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