Mechanic Accents Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America

Name: Mechanic Accents Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America
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ISBN: 9781859842508

ISBN-10: 185984250X

ISBN-13: 9781859842508

Edition: 2nd 1998

Authors: Michael Denning

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Combining Marxist literary theory with American labour history, Denning explores what happened when, in the 19th century, working people began to read cheap novels and the 'fiction question' became a class question.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/17/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Michael Denning teaches American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Mechanic Accents , Cover Stories , Culture in the Age of Three Worlds , and The Cultural Front .



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Figure of the Dime Novel in American Culture



Fiction Factories: The Production of Dime Novels



'The Unknown Public': Dime Novels and Working Class Readers



The Uses of Literacy: Class, Culture, and Dime Novel Controversies



Reading Dime Novels: The Mechanic Accents of Escapist Fiction



Mysteries and Mechanics of the City



The Molly Maguires and the Detectives



Tramps, Outlaws ...: Figures of the Great Strike



Arthurian Knights in Connecticut Factories



Only a Mechanic's Daughter


Conclusion: Happy Endings?


Notes


Bibliographic Note


Cheap Stories


Bibliography


Afterword to the Revised Edition


Index