SOURCE: “‘The Unknown Public’: Dime Novels and Working Class Readers,” in Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America, Verso, 1987, pp. 27-46.
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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