Post by account_disabled on Dec 30, 2023 3:31:07 GMT
Between 1860 and 1890, adventure fiction proliferated with tales of soldiers, explorers, investigators and Indian warriors. They were detective and mystery stories, but also about sports, about the sea (including pirate stories), about love and science fiction (usually boy inventors), stories about the Civil War and about slaves. Metta Victor's Maum Guinea and Her Plantation “Children” (1861) sold over 100,000 copies in a short time and was judged by Lincoln to be as compelling as Uncle Tom's Cabin . MalaeskaThe creator of this literature is said to have been Erastus Beadle, a printer who published magazines in Buffalo, New York. The first published dime novel , in 1860, was by author Ann Stephens (1813–1886), a popular writer for women's magazines.
The novel was Malaeska, The Indian Wife of White Hunters , which sold 65,000 copies in its first few months. The cost was not always a dime , i.e. the 10 cent dollar coin, but also up to 15 cents. The 10 dollar cents of 1860 correspond to 3.04 dollars today, i.e. 2.62 euros. It is important to consider this conversion, to understand how much a dime novel could cost today . The innovation of the dime novels was in the method and Special Data distribution. Rather than using the classic leather cover, Beadle and Adams, his partner, printed the novels in paperback format (16.5 x 10.8 cm): they were lighter and therefore could be sent by post. They became very popular with Union soldiers during the Civil War, as they could be stuffed into their pack.
The protagonists of these stories were also folk heroes such as Daniel Boone (explorer, 1734–1820), Kit Carson (explorer, 1809–1868), and Buffalo Bill (actor and hunter, 1846–1917). The first volumes were printed in sixteenth edition and had 100 or more pages, with recurring authors and characters. It was precisely in the 1870s that the concept of seriality of stories and adventures with the same characters was born . Critics initially welcomed the dime novels , because due to their low cost they reached the poorest part of the population, encouraging reading, then they criticized their excessive violence and foul language, even if vulgarity was censored in the text with some dashes. Western and Frontier stories Daryl Jones in his book The Dime Novel Western (1978) lists 6 types of dime novel heroes : the pioneer the miner the outlaw the dweller of the plains the cowboy the ranch owner Detective stories They followed the model of the legendary Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884) and the men of his detective agency.
The novel was Malaeska, The Indian Wife of White Hunters , which sold 65,000 copies in its first few months. The cost was not always a dime , i.e. the 10 cent dollar coin, but also up to 15 cents. The 10 dollar cents of 1860 correspond to 3.04 dollars today, i.e. 2.62 euros. It is important to consider this conversion, to understand how much a dime novel could cost today . The innovation of the dime novels was in the method and Special Data distribution. Rather than using the classic leather cover, Beadle and Adams, his partner, printed the novels in paperback format (16.5 x 10.8 cm): they were lighter and therefore could be sent by post. They became very popular with Union soldiers during the Civil War, as they could be stuffed into their pack.
The protagonists of these stories were also folk heroes such as Daniel Boone (explorer, 1734–1820), Kit Carson (explorer, 1809–1868), and Buffalo Bill (actor and hunter, 1846–1917). The first volumes were printed in sixteenth edition and had 100 or more pages, with recurring authors and characters. It was precisely in the 1870s that the concept of seriality of stories and adventures with the same characters was born . Critics initially welcomed the dime novels , because due to their low cost they reached the poorest part of the population, encouraging reading, then they criticized their excessive violence and foul language, even if vulgarity was censored in the text with some dashes. Western and Frontier stories Daryl Jones in his book The Dime Novel Western (1978) lists 6 types of dime novel heroes : the pioneer the miner the outlaw the dweller of the plains the cowboy the ranch owner Detective stories They followed the model of the legendary Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884) and the men of his detective agency.