The University of Wisconsin Press

---

Popular Culture

---

 

Yesterday’s Faces Volume 1: Glory Figures Robert Sampson Popular Press The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of the audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intense, the colors vivid, and the pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in a quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment. This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume begins the study with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source. If you would like to order the entire series, contact our distribution center by calling 773-702-7000 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Central Time, Monday through Friday. (This is a number in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.) Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

LC: 82-073597 PS 278 pp.  6 x 9 22 b/w illus. Cloth OUT OF PRINT ISBN 978-0-87972-217-3 Paper $17.95 t ISBN 978-0-87972-218-0 ADD TO CART

Home | Books | Journals | Events | Textbooks | Authors | Related | Search | Order | Contact

If you have trouble accessing any page in this web site, contact our Web manager. E-mail: webmaster@uwpress.wisc.edu. Updated 04/15/2015 © 2010, The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System