L141 American Best Sellers
Texts & References
Course Texts
| Titles | Authors | ISBN # |
| Popular American Literature of the Nineteenth Century | Edited by Paul Gutjahr | 0195141407 |
| Charlotte Temple (this edition only) | Susanna Rowson | 0195042387 |
| The Secret of the Old Clock (this edition only) | Carolyn Keene | 1557091552 |
| Peyton Place | Grace Metalious | 1555534007 |
| The Godfather |
Mario Puzo |
0451167716 |
| Misery | Stephen King |
0451169522 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling | 059035342X |
| Four Articles pdfs
below |
See below |
Access article pdfs below:
Rosenwasser and Stephen / What is Analysis and How
Does it Work?
Rosenwasser and Stephen / The Fortune Cookie School of Interpretation
Rosenwasser and Stephen / Recognizing and Fixing Weak Theisis Statements
Rossenwasser and Stephen / Making the Thesis Evolve
Select Bibliography for the Course
Davis, Kenneth C. Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Hackett, Alice Payne, and James Henry Burke. 80 Years of Best Sellers, 1895-1975. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1977.
Hart, James D. The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste. New York: Oxford UP, 1950.
Hinckley, Karen, and Barbara Hinckley. American Best Sellers: A Reader's Guide to Popular Fiction. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1989.
Miller, Laura J. “The Best-Seller List as Marketing Tool and Historical Fiction,” Book History III (2000) 286-304.
Mott, Frank Luther. Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1947.
Tebbel, John. A History of Book Publishing in the United States. 4 vols. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1972-1981.
---. Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing in America. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
Twitchell, James B. Carnival Culture: The Trashing of
Taste
in America. New York: Columbia UP, 1992.
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