ENTC 312: Supplemental Reading


Publishing and Popular Culture:

Bonn, Thomas L.  Heavy traffic & high culture : New American Library as literary gatekeeper in the paperback revolution. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1989.  Z473.N39 B66 1989

Cohn, Jan. Romance and the erotics of property. Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.  PS 374 .L6 C6 1988

Darby, William.  Necessary American fictions : popular literature of  the 1950s. Bowling Green, Oh. : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1987.  PS 374 .P63 D37 1987

Fiedler, Leslie A.  The inadvertent epic : from Uncle Tom's cabin to Roots.  New York : Simon and Schuster, 1980.   PS 371 .F54 1980

Fiedler, Leslie A.  What was literature? : class culture and mass society.  New York : Simon and Schuster, c1982.  PS 55 .F5

Gender, language, and myth : essays on popular narrative.  Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1992.  PN 56 .P55 G45 1992

Haut, Woody, Pulp culture : hardboiled fiction and the Cold War.  London ; New York, NY : Serpent's Tail, 1995.  PS374 .D4 H38 1995

Hawkins, Harriett. Classics and trash : traditions and taboos in high literature and popular modern genres.  London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.  PN81 .H39 1990b

Miner, Madonne M.  Insatiable appetites : twentieth-century American women's bestsellers. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.  PS 374 .W6 M5 1984

Modleski, Tania, Loving with a vengeance: mass-produced fantasies for women. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1982.  PR 830 .W6 M6 1982

Mott, Frank Luther. Golden multitudes; the story of best sellers in the United States. New York : Macmillan, 1947. Z1033.B3 M6 1947.

Political mythology and popular fiction.  Ed. Ernest J. Yanarella and Lee Sigelman. New York : Greenwood Press, c1988. PS 374 .P6 P65 1988

The Politics of everyday fear.  Brian Massumi, editor.  Minneapolis : University of Minneapolis Press, c1993. PN 56 .F39 P65 1993

Radway, Janice A.,  Reading the romance: women, patriarchy, and popular literature.  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1984.  Z1039.W65 R32 1984

Radway, Janice A.  A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, & Middle-Class Desire. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. (On Order)

Roberts, Thomas J.  An aesthetics of junk fiction.  Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1990.
PN 3503 .R59 1990

Sutherland, John  Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970s.  London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
PR 881 .S9

Wagner-Martin, Linda.  The mid-century American novel, 1935-1965.  New York : Twayne ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997.  PS379 .W266 1997

Whiteside, Thomas, The blockbuster complex: conglomerates, show business, and book publishing.  Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1981.  Z471 .W47