American Pulp : : How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street / / Paula Rabinowitz.
"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."-a civic leader "ed in a New American Library ad (1951)American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, de...
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Rabinowitz, Paula, author. American Pulp : How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street / Paula Rabinowitz. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource : 24 color illus. 42 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Pulp: Biography of an American Object -- 2. Pulp as Interface -- 3. Richard Wright's Savage Holiday: True Crime and 12 Million Black Voices -- 4. Isak Dinesen Gets Drafted: Pulp, the Armed Services Editions, and GI Reading -- 5. Pulping Ann Petry: The Case of Country Place -- 6. Señor Borges Wins! Ellery Queen's Garden -- 7. Slips of the Tongue: Uncovering Lesbian Pulp -- 8. Sci-Unfi: Bombs, Ovens, Delinquents, and More -- 9. Demotic Ulysses: Policing Paperbacks in the Courts and Congress -- Coda: The Afterlife of Pulp -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index "There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."-a civic leader "ed in a New American Library ad (1951)American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped readers fashion new identities. Drawing on extensive original research, Paula Rabinowitz unearths the far-reaching political, social, and aesthetic impact of the pulps between the late 1930s and early 1960s.Published in vast numbers of titles, available everywhere, and sometimes selling in the millions, pulps were throwaway objects accessible to anyone with a quarter. Conventionally associated with romance, crime, and science fiction, the pulps in fact came in every genre and subject. American Pulp tells how these books ingeniously repackaged highbrow fiction and nonfiction for a mass audience, drawing in readers of every kind with promises of entertainment, enlightenment, and titillation. Focusing on important episodes in pulp history, Rabinowitz looks at the wide-ranging effects of free paperbacks distributed to World War II servicemen and women; how pulps prompted important censorship and First Amendment cases; how some gay women read pulp lesbian novels as how-to-dress manuals; the unlikely appearance in pulp science fiction of early representations of the Holocaust; how writers and artists appropriated pulp as a literary and visual style; and much more. Examining their often-lurid packaging as well as their content, American Pulp is richly illustrated with reproductions of dozens of pulp paperback covers, many in color.A fascinating cultural history, American Pulp will change the way we look at these ephemeral yet enduringly intriguing books.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) Paperbacks United States History. Pulp literature, American History. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 9783110444186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 9783110665925 print 9780691150604 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400865291?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400865291.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Pulp: Biography of an American Object -- 2. Pulp as Interface -- 3. Richard Wright's Savage Holiday: True Crime and 12 Million Black Voices -- 4. Isak Dinesen Gets Drafted: Pulp, the Armed Services Editions, and GI Reading -- 5. Pulping Ann Petry: The Case of Country Place -- 6. Señor Borges Wins! Ellery Queen's Garden -- 7. Slips of the Tongue: Uncovering Lesbian Pulp -- 8. Sci-Unfi: Bombs, Ovens, Delinquents, and More -- 9. Demotic Ulysses: Policing Paperbacks in the Courts and Congress -- Coda: The Afterlife of Pulp -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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