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Must read : rediscovering American bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci code / edited by Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith. Continuum, c2012. Call #: 813.09 M991 Subjects Best sellers -- United States -- History.   American fiction -- History and criticism.   Classic fiction -- History and criticism.   Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.   Books and reading -- United States -- History.   Best books -- Fiction   Canon (Literature) -- History and criticism.   Literature -- History and criticism. ISBN:  9781441162168 (pbk.) 144116216X (pbk.) 9781441150684 (hc.) 1441150684 (hc.) Description:  vi, 373 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Introduction / Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith -- Missing numbers: the partial history of the bestseller / Sarah Garland -- The history of Charlotte Temple as an American bestseller / Gideon Mailer -- "Like beads strung together": E.D.E.N. Southworth and the aesthetics of popular serial fiction / Rachel Ihara -- Then Nights in a Bar-Room and the visual culture of temperance / William Gleason -- "The Man Without a Country": Treason, expansionism, and the history of a "bestselling" short story / Hsuan L. Hsu -- Exhilaration and enlightenment in the biblical bestseller: Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur, A tale of Christ / James Russell -- "Absolutely punk": Queer economies of desire in Tarzan of the Apes / J. Michell Coghlan -- Ornamentalism: desire, disavowal, and displacement in E.M. Hull's The Sheik / Sarah Garland -- Small change? Emily Post's Etiquette (1922-2012) / Grace Lees-Maffei -- Blockbuster feminism: Peyton Place and the uses of scandal / Ardis Cameron -- Crimes and bestsellers: Mario Puzo's path to The Godfather / Evan Brier -- Master of sentiment: the romances of Nicholas Sparks / Sarah Churchwell -- The Kite Runner's transnational allegory: anatomy of an Afghan-American bestseller / Georgiana Banita -- The fiction of history: The Da Vinci Code and the virtual public sphere / Stephen J. Mexal. Other authors:  Churchwell, Sarah Bartlett, 1970- Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 813.09 M991 Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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