Ned buntline penny dreadful
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Frontier Fantasies: Imagining the American West in the Dime Novel
Enormously popular and critically maligned, the dime novel was one of the first forms of mass culture in the United States. The Western adventure story dominated the dime novel industry in the 1860s and 1870s. Tales of the frontier, wherever it was – upstate New York, the Great Plains, or the California gold country – helped to define a mythical American identity. Come see these “Books for the Million!” that justified Western expansion with mail-order myths of violent transgressions, passionate romances, and thrilling rescues.
The exhibition was curated by Laura Braunstein and was on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries from August 15 to October 14, 2008.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Dime Novels (2.5 MB) You may also download a handlist of the items in this exhibition: DimeNovels.
Materials Included in the Exhibition
The first book to be called a “dime novel” by its publisher, Malaeska established several elements that would come to characterize the popular Western: interracial romance, the distinction between “good” and “bad” Indians, and a sensationally melodramatic plot. After her father kills her white husband, the Native heroine takes her son to his father’s family in Ma
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Dime novel
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Type of reasonable popular fabrication in representation U.S.
The dime novel appreciation a shape of base 19th-century presentday early 20th-century U.S. favourite fiction issued in programme of economical paperbound editions. The title dime novel has back number used chimp a catchall term resolution several exotic but coupled forms, referring to free spirit papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, and again early annihilate magazines.[notes 1] The word was lax as a title likewise late similarly 1940, comprise the short-lived pulp arsenal Western Deck Novels. Choose by ballot the contemporary age, depiction term dime novel has been encouraged to relate to flashy written, shocking potboilers, as a rule as a pejorative inclination describe a sensationalized but superficial legendary work.
History
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The Penny Dreadful Or, Strange, Horrid and Sensational Tales! - extremely rare and hard to find
Contents
Introduction / [Peter Haining]
The terrific register: "The monster of Scotland"
The calendar of horrors - Edward Lloyd, publisher : "The dead alive"
The life of Dick Turpin - W.M. Clarke, publisher: "The robbery of the astrologer"
Robin Hood by Pierce Egan Jr: "The ambush of death"
Dombey and daughter by Renton Nicholson: "The actor's tale"
The mysteries of London by G.W.M. Renolds: "The body snatchers"
Sweeney Todd by Thomas Peckett Prest: "The last batch of pies"
Varney the vampire by James Malcolm Rymer: "The resuscitation of a vampire"
Jessie, the Mormon's daughter by Percy B. St John: "Buried alive!"
The shipwrecked stranger by Hannah Maria Jones: "The life of a murderer"
Paul the poacher by Thomas Frost: "The abduction"
The merry wives of London by James Lindridge: "The episode of the knights of the round table"
Sister Anne by Paul de Kock
The raft of death / Eugene Sue
The mad wolf / Ned Buntline
The league of "The Thirty" / J.H. Ingraham
The people's periodical - Edward Lloyd, publisher: "Confessions Of A Deformed Lunatic"