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Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780773568600
DOI
10.1515/9780773568600
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10753213 bytes)
Pages
336\338
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 21:48:24

Description

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the best-selling fiction of Ralph Connor, Robert Stead, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Arthur Stringer was internationally recognized. In this intriguing cultural history of the conception, production, and reception of popular fiction, Clarence Karr challenges the common assumption that best sellers are a conservative cultural influence, reflecting and promoting traditional values. By focusing on a society and its cultural leaders at a period when they were coming to grips with modernity, Karr provides a new perspective on popular culture and the interaction between readers and popular authors.

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