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The Batsford Companion to Popular Literature.
Published by Batsford Academic and Educational, London, first edition, 1982, 1982
ISBN 10: 0713420979ISBN 13: 9780713420975
Book First Edition
Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, 207 pp, ills. From the blurb: "In this pioneering work, Victor Neuburg has assembled a wealth of information about popular literature, from the invention of printing to the present. The field is potentially vast and still in the process of definition: the present guide thus makes no attempt to be comprehensive but instead, by judicious selection, to give a vivid picture of the range and variety of popular literature and its producers. As a broad principle of selection, 'popular literature' is here taken to include three main categories: what unsophisticated readers choose to read for pleasure; what one group feels another ought to be reading for its own good - such as tracts, temperance literature and pamphlets; and the literature of self-improvement, including cheap reprints of the classics and manuals of self-instruction. The entries concentrate on Great Britain and the USA and range from the history of early ballads and chaphooks, through the popular novelists, tracts and ephemeral writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to modern developments such as westerns, strip cartoons and thrillers. However, as well as describing the main genres, the author has been concerned to sketch in the social, cultural and commercial background to the production of popular literature, factors which were so crucial in influencing the forms it took, Browsing through this book, the reader will come away with a lively awareness of the world of booksellers, publishers, magazines and religious and cultural institutions within which popular authors worked." Near Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper.
