Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance
The earliest attempts to mass-market romance fiction to American women readers in the late nineteenth century were more likely to fail than to flourish. This essay examines the first romance-centered dime novel and story paper series in order to reconsider this puzzling failure, which previous criti...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)
2011-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Popular Romance Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.jprstudies.org/2011/10/%e2%80%9cbelles-beaux-and-paratexts-american-story-papers-and-the-project-of-romance%e2%80%9d-by-william-gleason/ |