I have an article out in the new issue of Book History, modestly titled “Origins of the US Genre-Fiction System, 1890–1956.” By kind permission of the publisher I can also share the accepted manuscript version, which is both open access and richer in typographical errors. Publishers’ Weekly, January 25, 1941: 429. This is the first published piece of my current book project on the history of genre fiction. In the article I attempt to trace the formation of an institutionalized system ...
