• Media type: Book
  • Title: A novel marketplace : mass culture, the book trade, and postwar American fiction
  • Contains: Introduction : selling the novel in the age of mass culture -- Constructing the postwar art novel : the making and marketing of The sheltering sky -- The "incalculable value of reading" : Fahrenheit 451 and the paperback assault on mass culture -- Synergy and the novelist : Simon & Schuster, Time, Inc., and The man in the gray flannel suit -- From novel to blockbuster : Peyton Place and the narrative of cultural decline -- 1959 and beyond : mergers, acquisitions, and Norman Mailer -- Epilogue : novels today : Oprah Winfrey, Jonathan Franzen, and the long tail.
  • Contributor: Brier, Evan [Author]
  • imprint: Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, c 2010
  • Extent: 199 S.; 24 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0812242076; 9780812242072
  • RVK notation: HU 1520 : Darstellungen unter besonderen Gesichtspunkten
    HU 1110 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: USA > Literatur > Buchhandel > Massenkultur > Geschichte 1945-1960
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  • Footnote: Literaturverz. S. [181] - 192

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  • Shelf-mark: R2018 8 9403
  • Item ID: 31912178
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