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Originally, the term ''[[pulp]]'' denoted cheap paper, first produced in the [[1850s]]. Since then, it has also acquired the meaning of ''cheap'' literature: a host of [[maligned]] literary genres that probably begins with [[chivalric romance]]s, then moves to [[dime novel]]s and [[men's magazines]]. Metaphorically, it can be used to denote any form of [[low culture]]. Originally, the term ''[[pulp]]'' denoted cheap paper, first produced in the [[1850s]]. Since then, it has also acquired the meaning of ''cheap'' literature: a host of [[maligned]] literary genres that probably begins with [[chivalric romance]]s, then moves to [[dime novel]]s and [[men's magazines]]. Metaphorically, it can be used to denote any form of [[low culture]].
== Pulp and literacy == == Pulp and literacy ==
-The history of [[literacy]] goes back several thousand years, but before the [[industrial revolution]] finally made [[pulp|cheap paper and cheap books]] available to all classes in industrialized countries in the mid-nineteenth century, only a small percentage of the population in these countries were [[literate]]. Up until that point, materials associated with literacy were prohibitively expensive for people other than wealthy individuals and institutions.+The history of [[literacy]] goes back several thousand years, but before the [[industrial revolution]] finally made [[pulp|cheap paper and cheap books]] available to all classes in industrialized countries in the mid-[[nineteenth century]], only a small percentage of the population in these countries were [[literate]]. Up until that point, materials associated with literacy were prohibitively expensive for people other than wealthy individuals and institutions.
== See also == == See also ==

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Musk, Hashish and Blood (1886) is a French language collection of tales by Hector France "The adventures of a modern man among the cruel men and the passionate women of Algiers," reads the jacket copy of the pulpy paperback. Orientalist imagery of veiled temptresses and sword-wielding hunks abound.

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Originally, the term pulp denoted cheap paper, first produced in the 1850s. Since then, it has also acquired the meaning of cheap literature: a host of maligned literary genres that probably begins with chivalric romances, then moves to dime novels and men's magazines. Metaphorically, it can be used to denote any form of low culture.

Pulp and literacy

The history of literacy goes back several thousand years, but before the industrial revolution finally made cheap paper and cheap books available to all classes in industrialized countries in the mid-nineteenth century, only a small percentage of the population in these countries were literate. Up until that point, materials associated with literacy were prohibitively expensive for people other than wealthy individuals and institutions.

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