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Dime Novels: Papers
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Like the comics today, dime novels were attacked by the moralists—there was a scarcity of psychologists in those days. Anthony Comstock called the paperbacks “devil-traps for the young.” As a precaution, the publishers required their writers to insert a discreet number of Sunday school platitudes that could be forked out to captious critics upon occasion. Yet the youngster who surveyed the titles could scarcely have found them repressive in spirit. Perhaps
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Dime novels and pulp fiction are ephemeral works of popular fiction, frequently published under pseudonyms. They were published in large quantities, sold at low prices, and were printed on the cheapest paper, which deteriorates quickly. Many turned to dust and were lost. Others have recently been preserved in electronic form.
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The Elizabeth Nesbitt Room contains a small representative smapling of about 30 dime novels, some of them translations into foreign languages. Because of the poor quality paper used in their production, they are extrememly brittle.
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