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.
- Published by
- London : Cohen & West, 1957.
- Author
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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.
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- New Zealand author.
- Includes index.