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Dime Novels Summary
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A popular form of literary entertainment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dime novels were works of sensational fiction published in paper-covered booklets, issued at regular intervals, and priced at five to ten cents. Profitable...
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Dime novel Information
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Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also became a catch-all term for several different (but related) forms of late 19th century and early 20th century U.S. popular fiction, including “true” dime novels, story papers, five and ten cent...


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American Studies International
J. Randolph Cox, The Dime Novel Companion: a Source Book.
06/01/2002: 584 words, approx. 2 pages
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), xxx + 333 pp., $79.50 (cloth). "Bang! Ping! A bullet whistled by my left ear. Bang! Ping! Thud! Another whistled by my right ear, clipping a lock of hair, and burying itself in the stalk of the...
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
DIME NOVELS TO DOLLARS: PULP FOR A NEW AGE.(Spotlight)
09/10/2004: 328 words, approx. 1 pages
Byline: Patti Thorn, Rocky Mountain News books editor In the old days, if you liked your stories simple but sizzling, you'd plunk down a dime for a pulp novel. Printed on cheap paper, with simple sentences, a straight- ahead plot and...
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AP News
1878 Buffalo Bill billboard restored
6/2/2007: 465 words, approx. 2 pages
An 1878 billboard promoting a "Buffalo Bill" Cody stage show has been restored, five years after it was discovered beneath the crumbling brick facade of a former hotel.The 24-by-10-foot paper billboard had been pasted to an unfinished exterior wall of the hotel during construction 129...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Michael Denning
11,344 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Denning argues that dime novels constituted the primary reading material of the working class and that the books were specifically created by the middle class for workers.
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Critical Essay by Christine Bold
8,453 words, approx. 28 pages
In the essay below, Bold examines the role of dime novels, pulp fiction, and the commodification of literature in transforming views about the West.
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Critical Essay by Gregory M. Pfitzer
7,752 words, approx. 26 pages
In the essay below, Pfitzer argues that Twain transformed the formulaic components of dime novels into a masterpiece of literature.
 
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Dime Novels and the Depiction of Cowboy Life
319 words, approx. 1 pages
How the Dime Novels of the 1860s and 1870s distorted Americans view of cowboys' life on the frontier.


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