Further Reading

Bestsellers, Popular Fiction, Publishing and Popular Culture

Bonn, Thomas L. Heavy Traffic & High Culture : New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper in the Paperback Revolution. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1989. Z473.N39 B66 1989

Cohn, Jan. Romance and the Erotics of Property. Durham : Duke University Press, 1988. PS 374 .L6 C6 1988

Darby, William. Necessary American Fictions : Popular Literature of the 1950s. Bowling Green, Oh. : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1987. PS 374 .P63 D37 1987

Encyclopedia of American Social History. Eds. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn and Peter W. Williams. 3 vols. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. Ref HN 57 .E58 1993

Fiedler, Leslie A. The Inadvertent Epic : From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1980. PS 371 .F54 1980

Fiedler, Leslie A. What was Literature? : Class Culture and Mass Society. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1982. PS 55 .F5

Gender, Language, and Myth : Essays on Popular Narrative. Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1992. PN 56.P55 G45 1992

Hart, James David. The Popular Book : A History of America's Literary Taste. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976, c1950. Z 1003.2 .H37 1976

Haut, Woody, Pulp Culture : Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War. London ; New York, NY : Serpent's Tail, 1995. PS374 .D4 H38 1995

Hawkins, Harriett. Classics and Trash : Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern Genres. London : HarvesterWheatsheaf, 1990. PN81 .H39 1990b

Herald, Diana Tixier. Genreflecting : A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction. 5th ed. Englewood, CO : Libraries Umlimited, 2000. PS374 .P63 H47 2000

Korda, Michael. Making the List : A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999 : As Seen Through the Annual Bestseller Lists of Publishers Weekly. New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2001. Z1033 .B3 K67 2001

Miner, Madonne M. Insatiable Appetites : Twentieth-Century American Women's Bestsellers. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984. PS 374 .W6 M5 1984

Modleski, Tania. Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1982. PR 830 .W6 M6 1982

Mott, Frank Luther. Golden Multitudes; The Story of Best Sellers in the United States. New York : Macmillan, 1947. Z 1033.B3 M6 1947.

Political Mythology and Popular Fiction. Ed. Ernest J. Yanarella and Lee Sigelman. New York : Greenwood Press, c1988. PS 374 .P6 P65 1988

The Politics of Everyday Fear. Brian Massumi, editor. Minneapolis : University of Minneapolis Press, c1993. PN 56 .F39 P65 1993

Radway, Janice A., Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1984. Z1039.W65 R32 1984

Radway, Janice A. A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, & Middle-Class Desire. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Z 1003.2 .R33 1997

Roberts, Thomas J. An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1990. PN 3503 .R59 1990

Sutherland, John. Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970s. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. PR 881 .S9

Tebbel, John William. A History of Book Publishing in the United States. 4 vols. New York : R. R. Bowker Co. [1972]-1981. Z473 .T42
v. 1. The creation of an industry, 1630-1865.
v. 2. The expansion of an industry, 1865-1919.
v. 3. The golden age between two wars, 1920-1940.
v. 4. The great change, 1940-1980.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Mid-Century American Novel, 1935-1965. New York : Twayne ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997. PS379 .W266 1997

Whiteside, Thomas. The Blockbuster Complex: Conglomerates, Show Business, and Book Publishing. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1981. Z471 .W47