Screen LibraryBestsellers : a very short introduction /
"This Very Short Introduction takes a look through 'bestseller lists' since their arrival on the scene in the 1980s, to show that these lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literary fiction and are therefore worthy of serious study. Examining how these books reflect the...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Very short introductions ;
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"This Very Short Introduction takes a look through 'bestseller lists' since their arrival on the scene in the 1980s, to show that these lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literary fiction and are therefore worthy of serious study. Examining how these books reflect the fashions and ideologies of the day, it asks what separates bestsellers from canonical fiction, lifts the lid on the bestseller industry, and includes lively summaries of bestsellers through the years, from Huckleberry Finn to The Da Vinci Code, via many long-forgotten, but once bestselling, titles."--Jacket. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199214891 (paperback) : 0199214891 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PS371 |
| CLC: |
I561.074 I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/S966 |
| Contents: | Definitions -- The modern scene -- Fields and lists -- The American bestseller -- The British bestseller -- The future of the bestseller : is there one? |