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Discourse on popular culture
Feminist fiction
Cradle and all
What do I read next?, 2008
The Great Detectives
The blood is the life
Genreflecting
The popular and the canonical
Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes
Quest for Walden
Looking awry
America noir
The Progress of romance
Short Story Criticism
The dime novel western
Mayhem and murder
The Factsheet Five Zine Reader
The poets of Tin Pan Alley
Contemporary literary criticism
How to draw the human figure
Dockers and detectives
Short Story Criticism
Popular narratives and ethnic identity
Licensing entertainment
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Miracles and the pulp press during the English Revolution
Robin Hood
Contemporary literary criticism
Beneath the American Renaissance
Loving with a vengeance
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