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Dime Novels Criticism
Introduction
Representative Works
Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
The Dime Novel in American Life
Malaeska's Revenge; or, The Dime Novel Tradition in Popular Fiction
Judging Books by Their Covers: Format, the Implied Reader, and the ‘Degeneration’ of the Dime Novel
Criticism: Popular Characters
The Cowboy in the Dime Novel
Clenched Teeth and Curses: Revenge and the Dime Novel Outlaw Hero
Criticism: Major Figures And Influences
Ballou, the Father of the Dime Novel
‘Iron Dudes and White Savages in Camelot’: The Influence of Dime-Novel Sensationalism on Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Criticism: Socio-Political Concerns
Blood ’n Thunder: Virgins, Villains, and Violence in the Dime Novel Western
‘The Unknown Public’: Dime Novels and Working Class Readers
Further Reading