A novel marketplace mass culture, the book trade, and postwar American fiction

Introduction : selling the novel in the age of mass culture -- Constructing the postwar art novel : the making and marketing of The sheltering sky -- The "incalculable value of reading" : Fahrenheit 451 and the paperback assault on mass culture -- Synergy and the novelist : Simon & Sch...

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1. Verfasser: Brier, Evan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press c 2010
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : selling the novel in the age of mass culture -- Constructing the postwar art novel : the making and marketing of The sheltering sky -- The "incalculable value of reading" : Fahrenheit 451 and the paperback assault on mass culture -- Synergy and the novelist : Simon & Schuster, Time, Inc., and The man in the gray flannel suit -- From novel to blockbuster : Peyton Place and the narrative of cultural decline -- 1959 and beyond : mergers, acquisitions, and Norman Mailer -- Epilogue : novels today : Oprah Winfrey, Jonathan Franzen, and the long tail.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. [181] - 192
Beschreibung:199 S.
24 cm
ISBN:0812242076
0-8122-4207-6
9780812242072
978-0-8122-4207-2