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dime novel

NOUN
  1. a melodramatic paperback novel

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  • Being victims of their own success, many dime novels and yellowbacks are fragile or in poor repair.
  • The analysis is often laced with antiurban sentiment and occasionally mythologizes rural America as the dime novels did the Wild West. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
  • From dime novels and penny dreadfuls through to the pulp boom of the early 20th century which gave us the modern commercial genres of Western, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction and so on, that process continues, with all these genres being defined as “pulp fiction” which by now is intrinsically in contradistinction to “literary fiction”. Archive 2009-05-01
  • What the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller has to do with twentieth century hard-boiled detective fiction and nineteenth-century dime novels is beyond me.
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