American Pulp : : How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
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Rabinowitz, Paula,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 24 color illus. 42 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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