Must read: rediscovering American bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci code
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Continuum c2012
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction - Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith -- - Missing numbers: the partial history of the bestseller - Sarah Garland -- - The history of Charlotte Temple as an American bestseller - Gideon Mailer -- - "Like beads strung together": E.D.E.N. Southworth and the aesthetics of popular serial fiction - Rachel Ihara -- - Then Nights in a Bar-Room and the visual culture of temperance - William Gleason -- - "The Man Without a Country": Treason, expansionism, and the history of a "bestselling" short story - Hsuan L. Hsu -- - Exhilaration and enlightenment in the biblical bestseller: Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur, A tale of Christ - James Russell -- - "Absolutely punk": Queer economies of desire in Tarzan of the Apes - J. Michell Coghlan -- - Ornamentalism: desire, disavowal, and displacement in E.M. Hull's The Sheik - Sarah Garland -- - Small change? Emily Post's Etiquette (1922-2012) - Grace Lees-Maffei -- - Blockbuster feminism: Peyton Place and the uses of scandal - Ardis Cameron -- - Crimes and bestsellers: Mario Puzo's path to The Godfather - Evan Brier -- - Master of sentiment: the romances of Nicholas Sparks - Sarah Churchwell -- - The Kite Runner's transnational allegory: anatomy of an Afghan-American bestseller - Georgiana Banita -- - The fiction of history: The Da Vinci Code and the virtual public sphere - Stephen J. Mexal
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 373 p.)
ISBN:1441145885
1441150684
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