Guilty pleasures : popular novels and American audiences in the long nineteenth century /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2018.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813941646 0813941644 9780813941653 0813941652 |