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- Must Read Rediscovering American Bestsellers : From Charlotte Tem
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- 2012
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- Publication Name
- Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers : from Charlotte Temple to the Da Vinci Code
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What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, when so many books that were once immensely popular remain under-examined? Addressing those and other equally pressing questions about popular literature, Must Read is the first scholarly collection to offer both a survey of the evolution of American bestsellers as well as critical readings of some of the key texts that have shaped the American imagination since the nation's founding. Focusing on a mix of enduring and forgotten bestsellers, the essays in this collection consider 18th and 19th century works, like Charlotte Temple or Ben-Hur , that were once considered epochal but are now virtually ignored; 20th century favorites such as The Sheik and Peyton Place ; and 21st century blockbusters including the novels of Nicholas Sparks, The Kite Runner , and The Da Vinci Code .
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Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
1441150684
ISBN-13
9781441150684
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112617598
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers : from Charlotte Temple to the Da Vinci Code
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
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Ps374.B45m87 2012
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"The volume is particularly strong in its trans-Atlantic, global focus for all historical periods it covers. It is uniformly sophisticated in its attention to gender and sexuality, race, religion, and national identity, but also written in terms easily accessible to undergraduates... Must Read succeeds both in its parts and as a whole. The essays are generally of high quality, but Churchwell and Smith have also created an unusual degree of unity and coherence among the essays. Must Read 's thorough, clear introduction and careful selection and framing make it feel more like a monograph. Together, these essays make a coherent argument about popular literature as a site of struggle over meaning across history, a space where controversies over religion, race, nation, gender/sexuality, social and cultural value are negotiated." Erin A. Smith, American Book Review, "Must Read breathes new life into the study of best-sellers, rescuing them from not only the enormous condescension of posterity but also from the flattering but often reductive readings of modern academics. With its artful blend of textual analysis, historicization, and theoretical speculation, the contributors challenge us to reread and rethink a host of works, ranging from short stories and sentimental novellas to advice manuals and modern blockbusters. For anyone with an interest in the contours of American print culture from the eighteenth century to the present, Must Read is itself a must read work." -Leon Jackson, Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA, "Must Read breathes new life into the study of best-sellers, rescuing them from not only the enormous condescension of posterity but also from the flattering but often reductive readings of modern academics. With its artful blend of textual analysis, historicization, and theoretical speculation, the contributors challenge us to reread and rethink a host of works, ranging from short stories and sentimental novellas to advice manuals and modern blockbusters. For anyone with an interest in the contours of American print culture from the eighteenth century to the present, Must Read is itself a must read work." -Leon Jackson, Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA, "The volume is particularly strong in its trans-Atlantic, global focus for all historical periods it covers. It is uniformly sophisticated in its attention to gender and sexuality, race, religion, and national identity, but also written in terms easily accessible to undergraduates... Must Read succeeds both in its parts and as a whole. The essays are generally of high quality, but Churchwell and Smith have also created an unusual degree of unity and coherence among the essays. Must Read 's thorough, clear introduction and careful selection and framing make it feel more like a monograph. Together, these essays make a coherent argument about popular literature as a site of struggle over meaning across history, a space where controversies over religion, race, nation, gender/sexuality, social and cultural value are negotiated." - Erin A. Smith, American Book Review, "This pathbreaking collection provides a unique contribution to the study of American literature, bringing to the fore a broad survey of popular literature from a variety of eras and genres, and bringing to our attention a number of previously neglected yet essential bestselling works. A valuable addition to literary and cultural studies, Must Read is a must read for students and scholars of American popular culture and American literature more generally." -Lisa Botshon, Professor of English, University of Maine at Augusta, The volume is particularly strong in its trans-Atlantic, global focus for all historical periods it covers. It is uniformly sophisticated in its attention to gender and sexuality, race, religion, and national identity, but also written in terms easily accessible to undergraduates... Must Read succeeds both in its parts and as a whole. The essays are generally of high quality, but Churchwell and Smith have also created an unusual degree of unity and coherence among the essays. Must Read 's thorough, clear introduction and careful selection and framing make it feel more like a monograph. Together, these essays make a coherent argument about popular literature as a site of struggle over meaning across history, a space where controversies over religion, race, nation, gender/sexuality, social and cultural value are negotiated., Recommended for readers interested in publishing trends and the rise and fall of popular American literature, and for the literary extremist., Readers interested in the breadth of themes and modes of fictional expression will find plenty to intrigue them. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty., "The volume is particularly strong in its trans-Atlantic, global focus for all historical periods it covers. It is uniformly sophisticated in its attention to gender and sexuality, race, religion, and national identity, but also written in terms easily accessible to undergraduates... Must Read succeeds both in its parts and as a whole. The essays are generally of high quality, but Churchwell and Smith have also created an unusual degree of unity and coherence among the essays. Must Read 's thorough, clear introduction and careful selection and framing make it feel more like a monograph. Together, these essays make a coherent argument about popular literature as a site of struggle over meaning across history, a space where controversies over religion, race, nation, gender/sexuality, social and cultural value are negotiated." -- Erin A. Smith, American Book Review, "Although the past two decades have seen a sizeable increase in scholarly interest in bestsellers in the American context, there remains a great deal of unexplored territory when it comes to such literature. Must Read goes a long way in addressing this deficiency by examining a tremendous range of such literature with great critical care, insight, and theoretical sophistication. Must Read is a must read for anyone interested in American bestsellers." -- Paul Gutjahr, Professor of English, American Studies, and Religious Studies, Indiana University, USA
Table of Content
1. Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith2. Missing Numbers: The Partial History of the BestsellerSarah Garland3. The History of Charlotte Temple (1791) as an American BestsellerGideon Mailer4. 'Like Beads Strung Together': E.D.E.N. Southworth and the Aesthetics of Popular Serial FictionRachel Ihara5. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1854) and the Visual Culture of TemperanceWilliam Gleason6. 'The Man Without a Country' (1863): Treason, Expansionism, and the History of a 'Bestselling' Short StoryHsuan Hsu7. Exhilaration and Enlightenment in the Biblical Bestseller: Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ (1880)James Russell 8. 'Absolutely Punk': Queer Economies of Desire in Tarzan of the Apes (1912)J. Michelle Coghlan9. Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal and Displacement in E.M. Hull's The Sheik (1919)Sarah Garland10. Small Change? Emily Post's Etiquette (1922-2011)Grace Lees-Maffei11. Blockbuster Feminism: Peyton Place (1956) and the Uses of ScandalArdis Cameron12. Crimes and Bestsellers: Mario Puzo Path to The Godfather (1969)Evan Brier12. Master of Sentiment: The Romances of Nicholas SparksSarah Churchwell13.The Kite Runner Transnational Allegory: Anatomy of an Afghan-American BestsellerGeorgiana Banita14. The Fiction of History: The Da Vinci Code (2003) and the Virtual Public SphereStephen Mexal Contributor BiographiesIndex
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Film / General, General, American / General, Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2012-021064
Dewey Decimal
813.009
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
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