A Novel Marketplace : Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction [1 ed.] 9780812201444, 9780812242072

As television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly pervasive mass mediu

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A Novel Marketplace : Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction [1 ed.]
9780812201444, 9780812242072

Analyzing novels such as The Sheltering Sky, Fahrenheit 451, and Peyton Place, Evan Brier reveals how novelists and the

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Every hour of every day Americans see, smell, taste, or hear goods and services traded between the United States and oth

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During the prosperous, forward-thinking era after the Second World War, a growing number of men, women, and children acr

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In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alter

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From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sull

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The creation of the Indian art market in the Southwest in the 20s and 30s.

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American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics—a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic str

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By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by

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Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white p

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What elements of contemporary American life contribute to the United States having the greatest number and highest share

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