J. Randolph Cox, The Dime Novel Companion: a Source Book.

American Studies International;  June 1, 2002 ;     564 words ......with the proverbial bang, a series of dime novels entitled Jesse James Stories, published...their formats were always changing, dime novels generally could be characterized as...because of, their lack of literary luster, dime novels can be read today as remarkably revealing...

dime novels

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      132 words ...00-00-0000 dime novels dime novels Paper-covered adventure novels that sold for ten cents each...Beadles, in various partnerships, retained their leadership. Dime novels, which often celebrated the American past, jump-started what...

Beadle, Erastus and Irwin

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      12 words ...00-00-0000 Beadle, Erastus and Irwin Beadle, Erastus and Irwin See DIME NOVELS.

'Dime Novels' always evolving, Marsh says.(Time Out!)(On theater)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  September 12, 2003 ;     491 words ......angle. Take his series of stories, The Dime Novels, currently being performed as radio...writing the stories that make up The Dime Novels in the '80s, around the time he moved...her. In their first incarnation, The Dime Novels were a series of short novels he and...

That Dastardly Dime Novel

Voices;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......sales into the millions. But it is the dime novels that have endured in the national consciousness...dime." Reformers railed against the dime novels for their prurience, their racism, their...no boy was ever corrupted by reading dime novels, for their heroes were not allowed to...

Mr. Marsh's neighborhood Playwright's community provides a wealth of ideas

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 13, 2003 ;     674 words ......his new series of one-act plays, "The Dime Novels." Marsh, who is married with two children...recurring characters throughout "The Dime Novels" are composites of friends from the...of dollars. In one episode [of "The Dime Novels"], a neighbor is bragging about his...

A GERMAN GRANDFATHER'S TALES FROM OVER-THE-RHINE.(At Home)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  November 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ......subject was her grandfather. The title, Dime Novels and Dreams of America (MicroPress...friend whose uncle in America would send dime novels filled with tales of adventures at sea...1968. Sally spent two years working on Dime Novels and Dreams of America. Every time I...

How Gay Paperbacks Changed America. (Essay).

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and profligately. Penny dreadfuls and dime novels became enormously popular, and more...nearly 40,000 different 19th-century dime novels in its current collection. By the 1890's, dime novels were beginning to be superseded by the...

The role of sexual repression in Anthony Comstock's campaign to censor...

Journal of American Culture;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......forms of popular culture that he found repugnant, such as children's dime novels. Comstock's crusading spirit surfaced well before he began his campaign against dime novels. During his teenage years in New Canaan, Connecticut, he developed a...

Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books,...

Journal of American & Comparative Cultures;  July 1, 2000 ;     319 words ...Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks. Larry E. Sullivan and Lydia...other words, each of us. Topics of discussion include dime novels in general and specific serial writers and characters...

Western Americana treasures: Cowboy museum gets big collection.

Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK);  November 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Western movie posters, historical books, dime novels, photographs and other items. The collection...2,900 Western pulp novels and 3,200 dime novels and weeklies. More than 10,700 movie...movie room, music room and book room. Dime novels were carefully wrapped in plastic and...

Masculinity for the Million: Gender in Dime Novel Westerns

The Arizona Quarterly;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......sixteen-year-old woman, who "is the victim of dime novels, and says she wants to be a cowboy...suggests, Mary's "victimization" by dime novels but rather Mary's active affront to...American West. In the popular Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane was a recurring character...

Nick Carter

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;      35 words ...Nick Carter, name of the hero of many dime novels, also used by many of their authors. John Russell Coryell probably first used it in the 1880s, but more prolific writers produced most of the more than 1000 Nick Carter books.

Billy the Kid, McMurtry style: Blazing twaddle

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 2, 1988 ;     700+ words ......most of his life reading and writing dime novels and accumulating an enormous collection...out, is an ardent reader of Sippy's dime novels and promises not to hang the novelist...first-hand knowledge of the real West to his dime novels, his readers reject them, and eventually...

Zane Grey and images of the American West.

The Geographical Review;  April 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales (Hart 1950). Dime novels by E. Z. C. Judson (alias Ned Buntline...of cowboys were adapted straight from dime novels into the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show...portrayed as a hero (Boatright 1980). When dime novels acquired a trashy reputation toward...