Title:
Bestsellers : a very short introduction / John Sutherland.
Author:
Sutherland, John, 1938-
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Call Number:
PS371 .S86 2007
Abstract:
"This Very Short Introduction takes a look through 'bestseller lists' since their arrival on the scene in the 1980s, to show that these lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literary fiction and are therefore worthy of serious study. Examining how these books reflect the fashions and ideologies of the day, it asks what separates bestsellers from canonical fiction, lifts the lid on the bestseller industry, and includes lively summaries of bestsellers through the years, from Huckleberry Finn to The Da Vinci Code, via many long-forgotten, but once bestselling, titles."--BOOK JACKET.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0723/2007030686.htmlTable of contents http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016250921&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
ISBN:
9780199214891
Series:
Very short introductions ; 170
Very short introductions ; 170.
Physical Description:
127 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Definitions -- The modern scene -- Fields and lists -- The American bestseller -- The British bestseller -- The future of the bestseller : is there one?
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