The Dime Novel Companion

This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1200 entries on serial publications major writers and editors publishers and major characters fiction genres themes and locales. An introduction provides a brief history of the dime novel. A discussion of dime novel scholarship includes a selected directory of libraries and museums with significant collections of dime novels. An appendix contains a publishing chronology of the more than 300 serial publications and a selected bibliography suggests further reading.This comprehensive reference will appeal to popular culture scholars and to dime novel collectors. As an important research tool entries are cross-referenced throughout. An index is included.