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COPYRIGHT 2004 Modern Humanities Research Association
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900. By CLIVE BLOOM. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiii+292 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-333-68742-6 (pbk 0-333-68743-4).
Clive Bloom's new book meets a genuine critical need. As he rightly points out in his preface, 'the literary history of the bestseller is embryonic' (p. xi), but it is also fascinating. Bestsellers provides, in one volume, a history of the bestseller in 'the literate century' (p. 5), a critical framework for discussion of popular fiction, and a reference source. In order to encompass all this, the...
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