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The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313256745)
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J. Randolph Cox
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xThis encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales. An introduction provides a brief history of the dime novel. A discussion of dime novel scholarship includes a selected directory of libraries and museums with significant collections of dime novels. An appendix contains a publishing chronology of the more than 300 serial publications, and a selected bibliography suggests further reading.
This comprehensive reference will appeal to popular culture scholars and to dime novel collectors. As an important research tool, entries are cross-referenced throughout. An index is included.Author: J. Randolph Cox
ISBN-10: 0313256748
ISBN-13: 9780313256745
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2000
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d
Review Citation(s):
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2001 pg. 500
Booklist 10/01/2000 pg. 374
By J. Randolph Cox
xJ. RANDOLPH COX is reference and government documents librarian and professor emeritus at St. Olaf College. He also is the current editor of Dime Novel Round-Up.
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