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Popular fiction 100 years ago : an unexplored tract of literary history
- Title
- Popular fiction 100 years ago : an unexplored tract of literary history / Margaret Dalziel.
- Author
- Dalziel, Margaret
- Publication
- London : Cohen & West, 1957.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | PR871 .D3 1957 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 188 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This book has been written to show the reader what literature the great mass of the English people could buy cheaply a hundred years ago."--Preface
- Alternative Title
- Popular fiction one hundred years ago
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- New Zealand author.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Cheap literature before 1840 -- Salisbury square fiction -- Weekly romance the most popular writer of our time -- The moral issue -- A purified penny press: I -- A purified penny press: II -- The literature of the rail -- The heroine -- The hero -- Men and women -- Parents and children -- Class, work and money -- Religion and morals -- Conclusion: a question of taste.
- LCCN
- 58001080
- OCLC
- ocm00297282
- 297282
- SCSB-133551
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library