Guilty pleasures : popular novels and American audiences in the long nineteenth century / Hugh McIntosh.

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McIntosh, Hugh, 1978- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Subjects:
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History.
American fiction.
Literature and society.
Popular literature.
United States.
1800-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:171 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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