Must read : rediscovering American bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci code /: rediscovering American bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci code. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith.
• Other Names: Churchwell, Sarah Bartlett, 1970-; Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-
• Contents: 1. Must Read: Rediscovering American BestsellersSarah 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 .
• Publisher Details: New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: 813.009; Best sellers -- United States -- History; American fiction -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism; Books and reading -- United States -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441195135; 1441195130
• Related ISBNs: 9781441150684
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