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A Novel Marketplace

Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction

By: Evan Brier

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A Novel Marketplace

Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction

By: Evan Brier

As television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly pervasive mass medium on the nation's literature. While many studies have addressed the rhetorical response of artists and intellectuals to mid-twentieth-century mass culture, the relationship between the emergence of this culture and the production of novels has gone largely unexamined. In A Novel Marketplace, Evan Brier illuminates the complex ties between postwar mass culture and the making, marketing, and reception of American fiction. Between 1948, when television began its ascendancy, and 1959, when Random House became a publicly owned corporation, the way American novels were produced and distributed changed considerably. Analyzing a range of mid-century novels—including Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Grace Metalious's Peyton Place—Brier reveals the specific strategies used to carve out cultural and economic space for the American novel just as it seemed most under threat. During this anxious historical moment, the book business underwent an improbable expansion, by capitalizing on an economic boom and a rising population of educated consumers and by forming institutional alliances with educators and cold warriors to promote reading as both a cultural and political good. A Novel Marketplace tells how the book trade and the novelists themselves successfully positioned their works as embattled holdouts against an oppressive mass culture, even as publishers formed partnerships with mass-culture institutions that foreshadowed the multimedia mergers to come in the 1960s. As a foil for and a partner to literary institutions, mass media corporations assisted in fostering the novel's development as both culture and commodity.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812201442

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9780812201444

Novel Competition

American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999

By: Evan Brier

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Novel Competition

American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999

By: Evan Brier

Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with novels as never before for a form of prestige that had mostly been attached to novels in previous decades. In the context of this competition, developments like the emergence of Rolling Stone magazine, regional publishers, Black studies programs, and “New Hollywood” became key events in the life of the American novel. Novels by Truman Capote, Ann Beattie, Toni Cade Bambara, Cynthia Ozick, and Larry McMurtry—among many others—are recast as prescient reports on, and formal responses to, a world suddenly less hospitable to old claims about the novel’s value. This book brings to light the story of the novel’s perceived decline and the surprising ways American fiction transformed in its wake.

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254

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University of Iowa Press

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1609389409

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9781609389406

Atlas of Essential Orthopaedic Procedures, Second Edition

By: Evan Flatow,Alexis C. Colvin

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Atlas of Essential Orthopaedic Procedures, Second Edition

By: Evan Flatow,Alexis C. Colvin

Covering more than 100 fundamental orthopaedic techniques, Atlas of Essential Orthopaedic Procedures, 2nd edition offers a highly illustrated, step-by-step guide to the wide variety of conditions you’re most likely to see in practice. The easy-to-follow format begins with patient selection, walks you through a detailed, step-by-step description of the procedure, and concludes with the author’s surgical pearls—all heavily illustrated with radiographs, intraoperative photographs, and line drawings for optimal visualization of the procedure. This technique-focused reference is an essential resource for busy orthopaedic surgeons and a must-have reference for orthopaedic residency.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975124871

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9781975124878

Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

By: Evan Balkan

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Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

By: Evan Balkan

Where in Baltimore did the most decorated female spy in American history go to school? Why are Dorothy Parker’s ashes sitting in a memorial garden at the old NAACP headquarters? And which notorious gangster planted cherry trees in Charm City that are still in bloom today? You’ll find answers to the questions you didn’t even know you had in Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Learn about the connection between the Frank Zappa statue in front of the Enoch Pratt and free-thinkers in Lithuania or about the blind soccer team in Baltimore with a national championship title. From Lamar Jackson’s favorite dessert spot to where Edgar Allan Poe took his last steps and from the childhood home of the nation’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice to a burlesque bar that inspired a Paul Newman movie, you’ll find no shortage of weird, wonderful, and obscure in Maryland’s largest city. Local writer and professor Evan Balkan provides your expert introduction to the poets, gangsters, abolitionists, domestic terrorists, singers, assassins, athletes, and everyone in between who have called his city home. With his book as your guide, you’ll get to know an entirely new side of Charm City.

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300

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Reedy Press LLC

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168106068X

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9781681060682

The 9th Western Novel MEGAPACK®

4 Great Western Novels

By: Grant Taylor,Evan Hall,William Colt MacDonald,Dane Coolidge

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The 9th Western Novel MEGAPACK®

4 Great Western Novels

By: Grant Taylor,Evan Hall,William Colt MacDonald,Dane Coolidge

Wildside Press is pleased to present another great collection of 4 western novels. This time, included are: "WHIP" RYDER'S WAY, by Grant Taylor LOGAN, by Evan Hall STIR UP THE DUST, by William Colt MacDonald THE DESERT TRAIL, by Dane Coolidge If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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1479427047

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9781479427048

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878

By: Evan Robert Neely

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Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878

By: Evan Robert Neely

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent. Chapters analyze the ways in which “Nature” became a discursive site where theories of race and belonging, adaptation and environment, and the uses of literary and pictorial representation were being renegotiated, forming the basis for an ideal of the human and the nonhuman world that is still with us. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving the fields of visual culture, political economy, histories of racial identity, and ecocritical studies, the book examines the work of seminal figures in a variety of literary and artistic disciplines and puts the visual culture of the United States at the center of intellectual trends that have enormous implications for contemporary cultural practice. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, American studies, environmental studies/ecocriticism, critical race theory, and semiotics.

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239

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Taylor & Francis

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1040025803

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9781040025802

Walking Baltimore

An Insider's Guide to 33 Historic Neighborhoods, Waterfront Districts, and Hidden Treasures in Charm City

By: Evan Balkan

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Walking Baltimore

An Insider's Guide to 33 Historic Neighborhoods, Waterfront Districts, and Hidden Treasures in Charm City

By: Evan Balkan

Walking Baltimore includes Charm City's well-known neighborhoods -- Downtown, the Inner Harbor, Mount Vernon, and Fells Point. But in the voice of its insider author, the book also covers lesser-known and far-flung corners, revealing what makes Baltimore such a wonderful and fascinating destination and hometown. Full of little-known facts and trivia, this book shows how and why Baltimore was an essential player in the country's early history and continues to be influential today. Here is a city almost unparalleled in American history and it lives up to its modern reputation as a quirky, come-as-you-are and be-what-you'll-be place. The zany Baltimore-based film director John Waters (of Hairspray fame) summed it up best when he said, "It's as if every freak in the South was headed to New York City, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.

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Wilderness Press

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0899977022

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9780899977027

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Baltimore

Including Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford, and Howard Counties

By: Evan L. Balkan

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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Baltimore

Including Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford, and Howard Counties

By: Evan L. Balkan

Whether hiking within the city or out in the rural Carroll and northwest counties, this guide provides hikers with expertly drawn trail maps and profiles. Included are hikes in the major state parks and reservoirs and six surrounding counties, covering beaches, forests, and the Chesapeake Bay.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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0897328019

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9780897328012

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles

Baltimore

By: Evan Balkan

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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles

Baltimore

By: Evan Balkan

Within an hour's drive of Maryland's largest city, an abundance of natural and scenic places remain. From hikes within the city, including multi-mile greenway trails running through one of the largest unbroken urban forests in the United States, to the solitude of rural Carroll and northwest Baltimore Counties, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Baltimore is a guide to great hikes in the area. Not only are the trails of the major state parks and reservoirs covered, but readers will also find hidden treasures throughout the city and six surrounding counties, from vigorous day hikes to pleasant ambles. Hike along beaches, rivers, rolling farmland, waterfalls, mixed forests, the Chesapeake Bay - even a prairie. Areas rich in history and wildlife await the Baltimore area hiker. This book tells readers how to get there and what to see once they are there.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459618122

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9781459618121

Black Book List

Restaurants, Bars, Clubs, Hotels

By: Evan L. Schindler

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Restaurants, Bars, Clubs, Hotels

By: Evan L. Schindler

For those seeking the hip and haute in Los Angeles, this clandestine urban nightlife pocket manual is a comprehensive avant garde guide to restaurants, bars, clubs, and hotels in the City of Angels.

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Black Books

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0972687831

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9780972687836

A Novel Marketplace

Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction

By: Evan Brier

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A Novel Marketplace

Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction

By: Evan Brier

Analyzing novels such as The Sheltering Sky, Fahrenheit 451, and Peyton Place, Evan Brier reveals how novelists and the book trade positioned their works as antidotes to mid-twentieth-century mass culture, even as new partnerships between publishers and mass-culture institutions contributed to the success of these writings.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812242076

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Novel Competition

American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999

By: Evan Brier

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Novel Competition

American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999

By: Evan Brier

Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional effort to make the American novel matter after 1965. During this era, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture vied with novels for a specific kind of prestige - often figured as "importance" or "relevance" - that had mostly been attached to novels in previous decades. This trans-media competition, Brier argues, is a crucial but largely unacknowledged event in the literary and economic history of the American novel. In the face of it, the novel lost some of the symbolic specialness it formerly held. That loss, in turn, generated not just a much-discussed rhetoric of crisis but also a host of unexamined, intertwined effects on both literary form and the business of novel production. Drawing on a range of novels and on the archives of publishers, editors, agents, and authors, Novel Competition shows how fiction's declining position in a transformed "popular-prestige" economy reshaped the post-1965 American novel as art form, cultural institution, and commodity"--

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University of Iowa Press

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1609389395

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Secret Baltimore: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

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The 9th Western Novel MEGAPACK®

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Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878

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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Baltimore

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