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Cult Fiction is an exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature and theory of the contemporary mind in art and in life. Here the violent, erotic and sentimental excesses of contemporary life signify different facets of the modern experience played out in the gaudy pages of sensational and kitsch literature: novels, comic books, tabloid newspapers.
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Notes
Peter Hunt, quoted in Robert Leeson, Reading and Righting (London: Collins, 1985) p. 145.
Patricia Hollis, The Pauper Press: a Study in Working-Class Radicalism of the 1830s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970) p. viii.
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (Harlow: Longman, 1980) p. 280.
See, for example, Stanley Harrison, Poor Men’s Guardians: a Survey of the Struggles for a Democratic Newspaper Press 1763–1973 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1974).
See comments on the censorious and authoritarian nature of the radical press in Ken Worpole, Dockers and Detectives (London: Verso, 1983) p. 17.
See Worpole above; also Janet Batsleer, Tony Davies, Rebecca O’Rourke and Chris Weedon, Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class (London: Methuen, 1985)
and Roger Bromley, Lost Narratives: Popular Fictions, Politics and Recent History (London: Routledge, 1988).
Brian Stableford, foreword to Steve Holland, The Mushroom Jungle: a History of Postwar Paperback Publishing (Westbury, Wilts.: Zeon Books, 1994) p. x.
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Bloom, C. (1996). ’Scuse me Mr H’officer: An Introduction. In: Cult Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390126_1
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