MMC-2000 Lecture Notes - Fall 2015 Lecture 7 - Richard Saunders (skeptic), Penguin Books, Pulp magazine
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Colonial and revolutionary america (mid 17th to late 18th cent) First book: the whole booke of psalms, 1644 (bay booke of psalms) Wrote common sense and american crisis, most read books in america, provided philosophical and theoretical reasons for war on england. Becoming a mass medium (19th to early 20th century) Novels seen as a lower form of writing. These guys popularized it, novels set in america, appealed to elites, novel begins to be seen as having literary value. Spread reading, literacy on the rise, these helped. Paper(cid:271)a(cid:272)ks: arises i(cid:374) (cid:1005)93(cid:1004)"s, pe(cid:374)gui(cid:374) (cid:271)ooks a(cid:374)d po(cid:272)ket books; today >6(cid:1004)% of (cid:271)ooks sold i(cid:374) u are paperback. Penguin in london 1935, pocket books is us partner. Classic works of literature, elite works built for the masses.
