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A Novel Marketplace : Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brier, Evan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : selling the novel in the age of mass culture
  • Constructing the postwar art novel : the making and marketing of The sheltering sky
  • The "incalculable value of reading" : Fahrenheit 451 and the paperback assault on mass culture
  • Synergy and the novelist : Simon & Schuster, Time, Inc., and The man in the gray flannel suit
  • From novel to blockbuster : Peyton Place and the narrative of cultural decline
  • 1959 and beyond : mergers, acquisitions, and Norman Mailer
  • Epilogue : novels today : Oprah Winfrey, Jonathan Franzen, and the long tail.