This essential guide, now available in a fully updated new edition, is the only available study of all bestselling books, authors and genres since the start of the last century, giving an unique insight into a hundred years of publishing and reading and taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.



Autorentext
Clive Bloom is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, UK. Widely published and Series Editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Crime Files series, he is the author of Violent London and Riot City , amongst many other titles.

Inhalt
Preface to the Second Edition Preface Acknowledgements Origins, Problems and Philosophy of the Bestseller How the British Read Genre: History and Form Literature for Children Further Thoughts on Literature for Children Bestselling Authors Since 1900 Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
Titel
Bestsellers
Untertitel
Popular Fiction since 1900
EAN
9780230583870
ISBN
978-0-230-58387-0
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
29.09.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.15 MB
Anzahl Seiten
425
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch
Auflage
2nd ed. 2008