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The Dime Novel in Children's Literature
Engelsk Paperback
The Dime Novel in Children's Literature
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
274
ISBN-13:
9780786418435
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786418435
Udg. Dato:
23 nov 2004
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
23 nov 2004
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