Abstract
1. Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith 2. Missing Numbers: The Partial History of the Bestseller Sarah Garland 3. The History of Charlotte Temple (1791) as an American Bestseller Gideon Mailer 4. 'Like Beads Strung Together': E.D.E.N. Southworth and the Aesthetics of Popular Serial Fiction Rachel Ihara 5. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1854) and the Visual Culture of Temperance William Gleason 6. 'The Man Without a Country' (1863): Treason, Expansionism, and the History of a 'Bestselling' Short Story Hsuan Hsu 7. Exhilaration and Enlightenment in the Biblical Bestseller: Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ (1880) James Russell 8. 'Absolutely Punk': Queer Economies of Desire in Tarzan of the Apes (1912) J. Michelle Coghlan 9. Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal and Displacement in E.M. Hull's The Sheik (1919) Sarah Garland 10. Small Change? Emily Post's Etiquette (1922-2011) Grace Lees-Maffei 11. Blockbuster Feminism: Peyton Place (1956) and the Uses of Scandal Ardis Cameron 12. Crimes and Bestsellers: Mario Puzo Path to The Godfather (1969) Evan Brier 12. Master of Sentiment: The Romances of Nicholas Sparks Sarah Churchwell 13.The Kite Runner Transnational Allegory: Anatomy of an Afghan-American Bestseller Georgiana Banita 14. The Fiction of History: The Da Vinci Code (2003) and the Virtual Public Sphere Stephen Mexal Contributor Biographies Index
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