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Schurman, Lydia Cushman and Deidre Johnson, eds. Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America. Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, Number 75. Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press, 2002. 245pp. ISBN 0313320330 (hc).

  • Foreword by Madeleine B. Stern ... ix
  • Introduction ... xi
  1. Gresham's Law of Culture: The Case of Mickey Spillane and Postwar America - Jesse Berrett ... 1
  2. "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power - Sarah S.G. Frantz ... 17
  3. Calamities of Convention in a Dime Novel Western - Janet Dean ... 37
  4. Marvel's Tomb of Dracula: Case Study in a Scorned Medium - Donald Palumbo ... 51
  5. "Blood in the Sky": The World War II-Era Boys Series of R. Sidney Bowen - M. Paul Holsinger ... 69
  6. "It is a pity it is no better": The Story Paper and Its Critics in Nineteenth-Century America - Dawn Fisk Thomsen ... 83
  7. The Effect of Nineteenth-Century "Libraries" on the American Book Trade - Lydia Cushman Schurman ... 97
  8. "The ragtag and bobtail of the fiction parade": Pulp Magazines and the Literary Marketplace - Erin. A. Smith ... 123
  9. From Abbott to Animorphs, Fro Godly Books to Goosebumps: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Series - Deidre Johnson ... 147
  10. Poisoning Children's Culture: Comics and Their Critics - Amy Kiste Nyberg ... 167
  11. "Wise Censorship": Cultural Authority and the Scorning of Juvenile Series Books, 1890-1940 - Kathleen Chamberlain ... 187
  12. Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled - Alison M. Scott ... 213
  • Selected Bibliography ... 225
  • Index ... 233
  • About the Editors and Contributors ... 243



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