NP? pulp fiction

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from:  The Scout Report -- October 3, 2003


Two on Pulp Novels
Street & Smith Publishers' Archive and Dime Novel
Cover Art
http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/StreetAndSmith/
Horatio Alger Jr. Resources
http://www.wuacc.edu/sobu/broach/algerres.html

For thousands of Americans throughout the 19th and
early 20th centuries,
dime novels and pulp magazines were their first
experiences with the
emerging world of mass-produced material culture. One
such purveyor was the
Street & Smith publishing house, which began in 1855
and published a wide
variety of popular literature (such as homemaking
magazines, comics, and
dime novels) for over 100 years. These products didn't
often have a great
deal of originality, as the company viewed fiction as
a commodity, and
editors dictated plots and characters to writers, a
list that included
Horatio Alger, Upton Sinclair, and Jack London. This
first site, an online
exhibit presented by the Syracuse University Library,
pays homage to this
publishing house with a number of scanned digitized
images of the Street &
Smith dime novels, a cover art gallery, and a
collection of images
immortalizing that most famous comic strip character,
the Yellow Kid. The
second link will take visitors to a site that lists
online resources
regarding Horatio Alger Jr., a figure who cast a giant
shadow in the world
of dime novels, and who is best known for his series
of tomes that
celebrated the rags to riches mythos. Here visitors
can peruse course
syllabi that address Alger's body of work, online
versions of his novels,
and various online biographies. [KMG]

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