The Dime Novel Companion
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The Dime Novel Companion
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Author : J Randolph Cox
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-05-30
The Dime Novel Companion written by J Randolph Cox and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-30 with Social Science categories.
This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales. An introduction provides a brief history of the dime novel. A discussion of dime novel scholarship includes a selected directory of libraries and museums with significant collections of dime novels. An appendix contains a publishing chronology of the more than 300 serial publications, and a selected bibliography suggests further reading. This comprehensive reference will appeal to popular culture scholars and to dime novel collectors. As an important research tool, entries are cross-referenced throughout. An index is included.
The Illustrated Dime Novel Price Guide Companion
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Author : Joseph Rainone
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-04-11
The Illustrated Dime Novel Price Guide Companion written by Joseph Rainone and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-11 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Over 1700 total images! A Companion book to J. Randolph Cox book, "The Dime Novel Companion. An index of hundreds of dime novel and story paper titles along with rarity and value. Information on major publishers as well as the main characters and topics during the hey day of the dime novel and story papers from 1860 to turn of the century. Precursor to the pulp magazine and the comic book.
The Dime Novel In Children S Literature
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Author : Vicki Anderson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-10-16
The Dime Novel In Children S Literature written by Vicki Anderson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Dime Novel Desperadoes
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Author : John Hallwas
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2011-04-04
Dime Novel Desperadoes written by John Hallwas and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-04 with History categories.
A thrilling true crime narrative and groundbreaking historical account, Dime Novel Desperadoes recovers the long-forgotten story of Ed and Lon Maxwell, the outlaw brothers from Illinois who once rivaled Jesse and Frank James in national notoriety. Growing up hard as the sons of a struggling tenant farmer, the Maxwell brothers started their lawbreaking as robbers and horse thieves in the 1870s, embarking on a life of crime that quickly captured the public eye. Already made famous locally by newspapers that wanted to dramatize crimes and danger for an eager reading audience, the brothers achieved national prominence in 1881 when they shot and killed Charles and Milton Coleman, Wisconsin lawmen who were trying to apprehend them. Public outrage sparked the largest manhunt for outlaws in American history, involving some twenty posses who pursued the desperadoes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska. Some of the pursuers were intent on a lynching, but the outlaws escaped against incredible odds. When a mob finally succeeded in killing Ed, in broad daylight on a courthouse lawn, that event generated widespread commentary on law and order. Nevertheless, the daring desperadoes were eventually portrayed as heroes in sensationalistic dime novels. A stunning saga of robbery and horse stealing, gunfights and manhunts, murder and mob violence, Dime Novel Desperadoes also delves into the cultural and psychological factors that produced lawbreakers and created a crime wave in the post-Civil War era. By pointing to social inequities, media distortions, and justice system failures, John E. Hallwas reveals the complicity of nineteenth-century culture in the creation of violent criminals. Further, by featuring astute, thought-provoking analysis of the lawbreaker's mindset, this book explores the issue at the heart of humanity's quest for justice: the perpetrator's responsibility for his criminal acts. Every overview and encyclopedia of American outlaws will need to be revised, and the fabled "Wild West" will have to be extended east of the Mississippi River, in response to this riveting chronicle of major American desperadoes who once thrilled the nation but have since escaped historical attention for well over a century. With more than forty illustrations and several maps that bring to life the exciting world of the Maxwell brothers, Dime Novel Desperadoes is a new classic in the annals of American outlawry.
The Age Of Dimes And Pulps
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Author : Jeremy Agnew
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-07-17
The Age Of Dimes And Pulps written by Jeremy Agnew and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Dime Novel Western
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Author : Daryl Jones
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1978
The Dime Novel Western written by Daryl Jones and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Literary Criticism categories.
Traces the development of the western dime novel form from its source in early nineteenth-century fiction through to its full manifestation in the late 1800s. Daryl Jones focuses on the development of character types (backwoodsman, plainsman, outlaw, and cowboy), the settings, the structures, and the plots of this form.
The Dime
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Author : Kathleen Kent
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-11
The Dime written by Kathleen Kent and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with Fiction categories.
Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas in this 'violent, sexy, and completely absorbing' Edgar Award nominee, the first novel in the acclaimed Betty Rhyzyk series (Kirkus Reviews). Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she relocates to The Big D, where Mexican drug cartels and cult leaders, deadbeat skells and society wives all battle for sunbaked turf. Betty is as tough as the best of them, but she's deeply shaken when her first investigation goes sideways. Battling a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organisation, and an unsupportive girlfriend, the unbreakable Detective Betty Rhyzyk may be reaching her limit. Combining the colourful pyrotechnics of Breaking Bad with the best of the gritty crime genre, The Dime is Kathleen Kent's brilliant mystery debut and the launch of a sensational new series. Praise for Kathleen Kent: 'Only a fan blowing in the right direction could flip the pages of this lightning-paced tale any faster' Minneapolis Star Tribune 'One of the most breathless, inventive and – be forewarned – violent suspense plots I've read in a long time' NPR 'Exciting [and] moving... Grisly but likable' Wall Street Journal 'Some of the most intense crime fiction I've ever read' LitReactor 'Kent's offbeat humor pulls up reins just before it takes the story over a cliff' New York Times Book Review
Dashing Diamond Dick And Other Classic Dime Novels
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-06-26
Dashing Diamond Dick And Other Classic Dime Novels written by Various and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-26 with Fiction categories.
A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era Dime novels, as fundamentally American as baseball and jazz, were an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The five novels in this unique anthology are classic examples of the form, which encompassed Westerns, early science fiction, detective and mystery yarns, and Revolutionary War historicals. From the handsome gambler "Dashing Diamond Dick" and the daring inventor in "Over the Andes with Frank Reade, Jr., in His New Air-Ship" to the mythic baseball player in "Frank Merriwell's Finish," here are some of the most valiant heroes and notorious rogues in the pantheon. Read together, these novels are fascinating time capsules from a young nation in love with its larger-than-life characters. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Dime Novels And The Roots Of American Detective Fiction
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Author : P. Bedore
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Dime Novels And The Roots Of American Detective Fiction written by P. Bedore and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Social Science categories.
This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.
The Cambridge Companion To Popular Fiction
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Author : David Glover
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-05
The Cambridge Companion To Popular Fiction written by David Glover and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.