Author: Harry Hazelton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1232

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Author: Vicki Anderson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786483024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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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.

Author: Hamilton Holmes
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: J. Thomas Warren
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: George Henry Prentice
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Category : Susquehanna Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: J Randolph Cox
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313095361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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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.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1420

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