Guilty pleasures : popular novels and American audiences in the long nineteenth century / Hugh McIntosh.
"Examining reactions to bestselling fiction in America from 1850-1920, the period in which popular novels became national phenomena, Guilty Pleasures argues that ambivalence about public taste sparked a wide-ranging exploration of individualism and national identity"--
Main Author: | McIntosh, Hugh, 1978- (Author) |
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Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2018.
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Physical Description: | 171 pages : illustration ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |