Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks

By Larry E. Sullivan and Lydia C Schurman

Book Overview

Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes illuminates the significance of dime novels, series books, and paperbacks by exploring their historical backgrounds and analyzing their texts. Popular heroes and mysterious heroines abound as they are subjected to the scholar's eye and explored as literary artifact, symbol, and myth. The result is a one-of-a-kind study of the evolutionary development and importance of these three forms of popular culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138978485
• ISBN13: 9781138978485
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"