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pulp: a standalone construct

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pulp1 CONSTRUCTPulp fictionSMITH · PULP MAGAZINES

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Literary history

Cheap popular fiction of the pulp-magazine era

In literary and cultural history, pulp names the cheaply produced popular fiction of the early twentieth century, printed on coarse wood-pulp paper in mass-market magazines and associated with sensational crime, adventure, and romance stories. Smith's Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines studies these magazines and their readership as a feature of working-class culture. The referent is a genre and publishing format named, by metonymy, after the rough paper it was printed on, a cultural category quite distinct from tooth tissue or industrial wood fibre.[1]

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A genre and format of inexpensive mass-market fiction
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Studied through publication history, circulation, and the conventions of the fiction itself

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References

  1. Smith, E. A. (2000). Hard-boiled: Working-class readers and pulp magazines. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781566397681

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