American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

TitleAmerican Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsRabinowitz, Paula
Number of Pages390 pp.
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CityPrinceton, NJ
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780691150604
Annotation

Contents:
Pulp: biography of an American object
Pulp as interface
Richard Wright's savage holiday: True crime and 12 Million Black Voices
Isak Dinesen gets drafted: pulp, the armed services editions, and GI reading
Pulping Ann Petry: the case of Country Place
Señor Borges wins! Ellery Queen's garden
Slips of the tongue: Uncovering lesbian pulp
Sci-unfi: Bombs, ovens, delinquents, and more
Demotic Ulysses: Policing paperbacks in the courts and Congress
CODA: The afterlife of pulp

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