Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory
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Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory is a book by Clive Bloom.
Blurb
Here is an exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature and theory of the contemporary mind in art and in life. Here too, the violent, the sensational and the erotic signify different facets of the modern experience played out in the gaudy pages of kitsch literature. Clive Bloom offers the reader a chance to investigate the underworld of literary production and from it find a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding publishing and reading practices in America and Britain, ideas of genre, problems related to commercial production, concerns regarding high and low culture, the canon and censorship, as well as a discussion of the rhetoric of current critical debate. Concentrating on remembered authors as well as many long disregarded or forgotten, Cult Fiction provides a theory of kitsch art that radically alters our perceptions of literature and literary values whilst providing a panorama of an almost forgotten history: the history of pulp.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements ix PART I: ET IN ARCADIA EGO 1 1 'Scuse me Mr H'officer: An Introduction 3 2 Throwing Rice at Brad and Janet: Illicit, Delinquent Pleasures 12 3 Turning the World Round: The Print Revolution 48 4 A River So Deep: Literacy, Language 71 5 Outlaws Against The Law Badge: Readers Reading 85 6 Smart Like Us: Culture and Kulcha 104 7 Living in Technicolor: The Rules of Pulp 132 P ART II: ARS GRATIA ARTIS 157 8 The Ripper Writing: A Cream of a Nightmare Dream 159 9 West is East: Nayland Smith's Sinophobia and Sax Rohmer's Bank Balance 178 10 This Revolting Graveyard of the Universe: The Horror Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft 192 11 Harry and Marianne: The Never Ending Supernatural Soap 205 PART III: REQUIESCA T 219 12 The Death of Cult Fiction and the End of Theory 221 Notes Index vii
Index
Adams, Fanny 159 Adams, John 73 Adorno, Theodor 115 Ah Sin 188-9 Ainsworth, W. Harrison 87 Alcott, Louisa May 52, 53 Alim 232 Allen, Richard 81 American Magazine 23 American Non-Conformist & Kansas Industrial Liberator 8 American Press 44 American Psycho 231, 232, 238 Amis, Kingsley 110 Anderson, Gerry 31 Answers to Correspond'::1ts 20 Archer, Jeffery 15 Argus Publications 97 Arnold, Matthew 8, 44, 48, 62, 104, 113, 126,251 Artaud, Antonin 239 Arthur (King) 177 Ashley, April 132 Asimov, Isaac 28,30,31 Assistant Librarian, The 164 Association of Comics Magazine Publishers 141 AstrDIogy and Sex 36 Auden, W.H. 215 Austen, Jane 22, 94, 88 Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, The 32 Bain, Alexander 66 Bakunin, Michael 238 Baldwin, Charles Sears 67 Bantam Books 43 Barclay, Florence 95 Barker, Clive 237 Barnum, P.T. 163 'Bartimeus' 22 Batman 35, 137-9, 166 Batsleer, Janet 241 Baxter, Walter 146 Bea 1l0, The 93 Beatles 17 Bebbington 54 Behan, Brendan 249 Belden, Amos 34 Belloc-Lowndes, Marie 164 Benjamin, Walter 40 Bennett, William 113 Berg, Alban 164 Berry, James 171,172, 175 Besant, Walter 64 Betjeman, John 215 Betty Page ill Bondage 132 Bewitched 30 Bible 120 Bigsby, e.W.E. 126 Bird, Robert Montgomery 120 Biro, Charles 140 Black Dwarf 85 Black Lace' 98 Blackmore, R.D. 73 Blair, Kathryn 22 Bland, Nargo 146 Blavatsky, Madame 190 Bloch, Robert 164, 166, 192, 204 Bloom, Allan 113, 121 Bloom, Clive 250 Bloom, Harold 113 Blue Dwarf. The 87 Blue Velvet 17 Blyton, Enid 7 Booker Prize 21 Booth, Charles 162 Bower, B.M. 95 Bradbury, Ray 192 Bradford, Barbara Taylor 82 Braine, John 110 Brave New World 232 Brewer, J.F. 164 Broch, Herman 40, 41 Bromley, Roger 241 Bronte family 94, 134 Bronte, Charlotte 129 Broughton, Rhoda 95 Browntree, W.e. 34 Bruce, A Drew 34 Brunvand, Jan Harold 251 Buchan,John 22,95,178 Buck Rogers 123 Bull, Henry (Harry) 216 BuflUel, Luis 239 Bunyan,John 52,91 Burchill, Julie 131 Burgess, Anthony 81, 117 Burnett, W.R. 22 Burney, Fanny 52 Burnham, John e. 241 Burroughs, Edgar Rice 30 Burton, Tim 233 Bus Stop 154 Cain, James M. 80 Caine, Hall 73 Campbell (Lord Chief Justice) 149 Campbell, Jock 21 Campbell, John W. Jr. 27, 31 Campbell, Ramsay 192,204 Carnegie, Andrew 8 Carter, Lin 200 Carter, Nick 22 Carter, Reginald 145 257 258 Cartland, Barbara 22, 95, 128-9, 135, 145 Cary, Joyce 23 Cassell, John 58 Catnach, James 54, 55, 95 Cawelti, John G. 124, 125, 135 Celine 239 Chandler, Raymond 48, 67 Chapman & Hall 53, 57 Chapman, Annie 161 Chase, James Hadley 16, 81 Checker Books 43 Cheney, John 55 Chesser, Dr Eustace 146 Chieago Daily News 140 Chomsky, Noam 115 Christie, Agatha 21,22,95,217 Chung Ling 500 (William Ellsworth Robinson) 187-8 Clarke, Arthur C. 28, 30, 31 Cobbett, William 91 Cockburn (Lord Chief Justice) 149 Cole, Jack 140 Collins, Jackie 82, 95 Collins, Wilkie 92, 93 Comic Code 137, 142 Comics Code Authority 142 COllling of Age in Samoa 132 Comrade, The 8 Connell, Vivian 146 Connolly, Cyril 110 Conservative, The 195 Constable & Ballantyne 59 Cookson, Catherine 22, 95 Corder, William 54 Corelli, Marie 58, 73, 95 Corman, Roger 192 Cosmopolitan 23 Courtney, W.L. 43 Cream, Neill 159, 163 Crime Does Not Pay 140 Crippen, Dr 207 Cripps, Stafford 110 Crockett, Davy 163 Crompton, Richmal 99 Cross, John 85 Crowley, Aleister 190 D-99 29 Daily Chronicle 62, 72 Daily Express 100 Daily Herald 72 Daily Mirror 113, 216 Daily News 45 Daily Telegraph 166 DalL Salvador 239 Daly, Mary 239 Dalziel, H.J. 63 'Dam Buster' 22 Davies, Tony 241 Davis, Stuart 16 Day, Doris 30 DC Comics 166 Dean, James 45 Debord, Guy 18 Debs, Eugene i1 Index Deeameron 146 De Graff, Robert 43 Dehan, Richard 99-101 Delaney, Shelagh 110 Dell, Ethel M. 43,69, 117 Derleth, August 204 Detective Story Magazine 20 Dickens, Charles 52, 53, 57, 59, 64, 81, 105, 130, 149 Dingwall, Joyce 22 Divine 17 Dodson, Gerald 145 Dorfles, Gillo 40 Double Indemnity 80 Doyle, Arthur Conan 22,56,81, 126, 182, 185 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 179 Dr Who 30 Druitt .. Montague 164 Du Maurier, Daphne 228 Dublin Review, The 34 Duchamp, Marcel 16 Dulwich College for Boys 48 Dunsany, Lord 200 Easl London Advertiser 164 Edison, Thomas 31 Eliot, George 53, 64, 94, 108 Eliot, T.5. 16, 79, 107-8, 192, 214, 242 Encounler 111, 113 Engels, Friedrich 20, 162 Enright,D.J. 179 Equino, Olaudah 85 Erasurehead 17 Evans, Hiram Wesley 198 Evening Standard 112 Eyeful· 154 Fae/ory Lad, The 119 Fairless, Michael (Margaret Fairless Barber) 95 Fanshaw, D. 34 Fanthorpe, Robert Lionel 25-6, 28 Farson, Daniel 164 Farson, David 145 Faster Pussycal! Kill! KilJl 233 Faulkner, William 23 Ferber, Edna 68 Fielding, Henry 85 Fiedler, Leslie A. 125 Finnegans Wake 112 Fire Walk with Me 17 First Reading 111 Fisher, W.j. 62 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 221-6, 228 Flash Gordon 123 Fleming, Ian 22, 11 0 Fletcher, Geoffrey 166 Foucault, Michel 172 Fowler, William 78 Fowles, John 228 Foyster, Lionel 211,217-18 Foyster, Marianne 212, 217, 218 Frances, Stephen (Hank Janson) 81, 144-5, 147, 149 Franklin, Benjamin 19,20,53 Freud, Sigmund 203 Fu Manchu, Dr 179 Fussell, Paul 116-17 Fyfe, Horace B. 25-8 Gaines, William 144 Garland, Judy 45 Garvice, Charles 43 Gasset, Ortega y 126 George, Isaac 85 Gernsback, Hugo 31 Gilkes, A.H. 48 Girard, Rene 174-6 Glynn, Elinor 95 Goethe, Johann W. von 120 Good Companions, The 109 Goulart, Ron 125, 140 Grand, Madame Sarah 95 Graphic, The 43 Great Sequah, the 208 Great Tradition, The 94 Greenburg, Clement 40 Greene, Graham 109 Greene, Graham C. L1 Gregson, Captain 218 Griffiths-Jones, Mervyn 145 Guardian, The 86 Guback, Thomas 115 Gull, William 164 Haggard, Henry Rider 132-3, 168 Haining, Peter 125 Hall, Trevor H. 205, 206, 217 Hamblin, Louisa 119 Hammer, Mike 123 Hammett, Dasruell 22, 23, 221, 223-6 Hanley, James 146 Hardy, Tom 73 Haring, Keith 18 Harkness, John 54 Harmsworth, Alfred (Lord Northcliffe) 20, 63,65,251 Harris, Thomas 237 Harrison, Michael 164 Harrison, Morton 199 Hart, John S. 67 Hawkins, Harriett 120 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 225 Hays Code 142 Hearst, Randolph 8 Heidegger, Martin 235 Heinemann, William 43,59, 100 Hello' magazine 14 Hemingway, Ernest 14, 22, 228-9, 254 Henri, Edwin 35 Henry, O. 68 Henty, George Arthur 101 Herbert, James 237 Hirsch, E. Donald Jr. 113 History of Tom Hicknthrift, The 90 Hitler, Adolf 165 Hobhouse, L.T. 62 Hobsbawm, Eric 71 Hodder & Stoughton 43, 89 Hoffa, Jimmy 44 Index Hogen, Thomas 34 Hogg, Garry 132 Hoggart, Raymond 144 Hoggart, Richard 63, 81, 110, 116, 130 Holmes, Sherlock 56, 166, 179, 213 Hope, Jefferson 81 Horler, Sidney 22 Hornby, Nick 13 'Horror Comics' Bill 146 Hosie, james F. 67 HOUlld of the Baskerville" The 190, 242 Hours with the Saints 89 Howard, R.E. 27 Howells, Dean William 105 Hubbard, L. Ron 28, 31, 123 Hudson, Clare 253 Hudson, Rock 30 Hughes, Robert 114, 122 Hunt, Howard 123 Huston, John 225 Hutcrunson 43 Hutson, Shaun 22, 237 Huxley, Aldous 109, 215 Hyde, H. Montgomery 146, 169, 170 Inside America 144 Irigaray, Luee 239 Island of Dr Fu Manchu, The 180 Jack the Giant Killer 90 Jackson, Michael 120 James, Frank and Jesse 86 James, Henry 22, 83, 126, 148 James, M.R.· 192, 205, 231, 236 James, Norah 146 Janson, Hank (see also Frances, Stephen) 22,145 Jasper, Karl 126 Jennings, Dean Southern 22 Jewsbury, Geraldine 95 Joad, C.E.M. 210 joker 137 jones, Kennedy 251 jones, Robert Page 22 joyce, james 68, 107, 109, 126, 226, 230 Kafka, Franz 225 Kametaro, Frank 188 Kansas City Star 86 Kantor, MacKinlay 23, 147 Kauffman, Stanley 146 Keating, Bill 43-4 Keating, Peter 122 Kelly, Alexander 164 Kelly, Mary 166, 173, 237 Kelly, Ned 86 Kendrew, james 55 Kennedy, Bobby 45 Kennedy, john F. 44-5 Kernan, Alvin 114 Killing Joke, The 138 Kimball, Roger 113 King Solomoll" Mines 133 King, Cecil 113 259 260 King, Stephen 125, 192,200,227-9,230, 236-7 Kipling, Rudyard 101 Klaw, Irving 154 Knight, Charles 57 Knight, Constance 208 Knight, Stephen 164 Konovalov, Dr 164 Koons, Jeff 17-19 Kristol, Irving 111 Kroker, Arthur 234-5 Kurtzman, Harvey 144 La Cicciolina 17-19 Ladies Home Journal, The 141 Lady Chatterley trial 141, 145 Lady Chatterley sLover 132, 145-6 Landesman, Cosmo 130 Landshoff, Ruth 22 Lane, Allen 42 Lawrence, D.H. 60, 89, 108, 134, 145, 192 Le Morle Darthur 48 Leavis, F.R. 38,48,94, 104, 107-8, 111-12, 118, 126, 130 Leavis, Queenie (Q.D.) 104, 117 Lee, Stan 133 Lehmann, John 110, 113 Lehmann, Rosamond 113 Levine, Lawrence W. 121-2 Lewis, William D. 67 Lichtenstein, Roy 16, 138 Lieber, Fritz Jr. 27 Lion Books 43 Lipski, Israel 159 Little Tich 179, 188 Liverpool Theatrical News 188 Lloyd, F. 63 Londoll Magazille 113 Look Back ill Anger 112 Lovecraft, H.P. 192,231 Lowenthal, Leo 115 Lucas, Steven 31 LlIcky Jim 112 Lugosi, Bela 233 Lynch, David 17 Lytton, Bulwer 94 MacDonald, John D. 126 MacInness, Colin 81, 117 Macmillan 58 MAD magazine 144 Magic MOllntaill, The 114 Maistre, Joseph de 175 Malcolm, David 22 Mall from U.N.C.L.E., The 30 Mall Who Killed Hitler, The 22 Mall Who Rocked the Boat, The 43 Mann, Thomas 126 Mannix, Daniel P. 132 Mansfield, Jayne 45 Mansfield, Katherine 72 Marconi, Guglielmo 31 Marcus, Greil 13, 15, 36 Maschler, Tom 21 Index Marten, Maria 54. 159 Martin, Robert 148-9 Marx, Karl 11, 20, 57, 125 Mason, A.E.W. 48, 101 Maybrick, James 165,217 Mayhew, Henry 54-5, 162 McAleer, Joseph 93 McCormick, Donald 164 McFall, Mrs Frances 95 McGraw, Charles 146 McGuffy, William Holmes 120 McMurtry, Larry 116 Mencken, H.L. 20, 75 Metcalfe, Adrian 15 Meyer, Russ 233 Mill all the Floss, The 73 Miller, Henry 230 Miller, Jim '13, 22 Million 22 Mills & Boon 9, 22 Milton, John 187 Misery 232 Misfits, The 154 Modem Review, The 130-1 Monroe, Marilyn 44-5, 154 Montalk, Count Potocki 146 Moorcock, Michael 22 Moore, Patrick 28 Morgan, John 55 Morley, Scott 33 Morning Leader Group 63 Movement, the 112 Mudie, Charles Edward 58, 60 Muller, John E. 30 Murdoch, Rupert 20, 43 Murray, John 53, 59 Mushroom JUllgle, The 11 Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu, The 179 Nasaw, David 241 Nash, Walter 128, 135 National Ecollomist 8 Natiollal Enquirer 15, 45-6 New American Library 43 New Soundings 111 Newbolt, Sir Henry 101 Newgate Calendar, Tlte 20 Newman, Kim 52, 164 Newnes, George 20 News of tlte World, The 45-6 Nietzsche, Friedrich 60, 108, 238 No Orchids for Miss Blandish 16 North, Sterling 140 O'Brien, Geoffrey 123 O'Connor, John 147, 149 O'Rourke, Rebecca 241 Obscene Publications Act 146 Observer, The 100-2 Oliphant, Mrs 94-5 Olson, Charles 79 Oppenheim, E. Phillips 30, 213 Orwell, George 16, 42, 47, 81, 92-3, 115-16,130 Osborne, John 110 Oswald, Lee Harvey 44 'Ouida' 95 Packard, Vance 135-6 Page, Betty 13, 17, 154-5 Paine, Tom 91 Pall Mall Gazette 251 Paradise Lost 85 Pardoe, Geoffrey 146 Paul Raymond Publications 98 Pawling, Sydney 100 Peace, Charlie 159 Pearl, Cyril 250 Pearson, Arthur 63 Pearson's Magazine and Chamber's Joumal 179 Pearson's Weekly 54 Penguin Books 42 Pennsylvallia Journal and Weekly Advertiser 76 People's Webster Pronouncing Dictionary and Spelling Guide 106 Pickwick Papers, The 77 Pilgrim's Progress, The 89, 120 Pitts, John 55 Plan 9 from Outer Space 233 Plallet of the Apes 31 Pleat, David 13 Pocket Books 43 Poe, Edgar Allan 56, 168, 200, 236-7, 239 Police Gazette, The 15 Poor Richnrd' 5 Almallack 68 Pope, Generoso Jr. 45, 46 Popular Library 43 Pound, Ezra 192 Price, Edward Ditcher 207, 210, 213 Price, Harry 205-6 Protestant Vindicator 33, 34 Proust, Marcel 126 Psycho 232 Publishers' Circlllllr 59 Pulitzer, Joseph 8, 65 Plinch 160 Punter, David 201 Pyramid 43 Quarterma,s 30 Queux, William Le 22 QVC 13 Reader's Digest 45, 68-9 Red Harvest 23 Reid, Desmond 22 Renin, Paul 22 Revolutioll 8 Rhys, Jean 129 Richards, l.A. 107 Riddell, G. 63 Ripper, Jack the 14-15,35, 159, 161-7, 170-7, 179 Robbins, Harold 135 Robey, George 188 Rociev Horror Show, The 234 RoJUner, Sax 22, 178-81 Rosenberg, Harold 40 Index Ross, Andrew 254 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 120 Routledge, George 53 Roux, Gaston Le 192 Rusher, J.G. 55 Russell, Baron (of Liverpool) 132 Sade, Marquis de 35, 167, 239 Sanctuary 23 'Sapper' 178 Sargant, W.L. 71 Sarto, Ben 22 Saturday Evening Post 23 Satyricon 146 Sayers, Dorothy L. 117-18, 205 Schiller, Herbert l. 115 Schultz, Henry 141 Scott, Walter 52 Scott, Winfield 193 'Seaforth' 22 'Seamark' 22 Sears Roebuck Catalogue 68 Scvw Per Cmt Soilition, The 166 Sexton Blake Library 22 Sexual Impulse, The 146 261 Shakespeare, William 46,52,74,94,118-19, 120-1, 186 Shaw, George Bernard 61, 108 She 133 Shelley, Mary 192 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 113 Sheppard, Jack 14, 86 Sheridan, Richard 52 Showalter, Elaine 94 Sickert, Joseph 164 Sickert, Walter 164 Sidmouth, Lord 85 Silence of the Lambs, The 232 Slaughter on 10th Aveillie 43 Slocum, John 34 Small, Austen J. 22 Smart Set, The 20 Smith, Mabel 217 Smith, W.H. 53, 58, 146, 180 Snow IAlhite 120 Snow, c.P. 28, 112 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 71 Society of Authors 51 Sorrell alld Son 109 Southcott, Joanna 91 Spade, Sam 23 Spectator, The 100, 112 Spender, Stephen 111-12 Spengler, Oswald 126 Spiderman 137 Spillane, Mickey 7, 44-5 Stableford, Brian 241 Star Trek 132 Stephen, J.K. 164 Stevens, Wallace 79 Stevenson, Robert Louis 22, 108, 167-70 Stoker, Bram 43, 81, 126, 192 Stokes, Doris 14 Stowell, Thomas 164 262 Strand Magazine 20, 56 Stratford Express 162 Strong, George Templeton 105 Sturgeon, Theodore 28 Sue, Eugene 125 Sun, The 20, 160-1 SWlday Press 63 Sunday Times 112 Superman 137-8 Susann, Jacqueline 126 Sutcliffe, Peter 232 Sutherland, J.A. 42 Swanson, Robert 218 Sweeney Todd 56 Syrett, Netta 109 Tabori, Paul 206 '1 affrail' 22 Tauschnitz 43 Taylor, D.J. 241 Taylor, S.j. 46 Teaserama 154 Thackeray, William Makepeace 52 Thomas, D.M. 121 Thomas, Isaiah 55 Thompson, E.P. 91 Thoreau, David Henry 115 Thorne, Guy 22 Thorpe & Porter 21 Those about to Die 132 Thurmond, John 86 Times Higher Education Supplemmt 118, 121 Times, The 20, 159, 161-2 Tit Bits 20, 56 Tocqueville, Alexis de 74, 77, 79 Todd, Sweeney 160 Toiler's Friend, The 8 Tolstoy, Count Leo 46 Tommy Trip and his Dog Jowler 90 Treasure Island 140 Trevelyan, G.M. 62 Trollope, Anthony 64 Trotter, David 99, 101 True Detective 97 Turner, E.5. 125 Turney, E.H. and Irene 21 Turpin, Dick 14 Twain, Mark 64 Twilight Zone 45 Twin Peaks 17, 232 Tynan, Kenneth 111 Uhlig, Theodor 238 Uncle Tom's Cabin 51 Vampyr, Der (opera) 239 Veblen, Thorstein 113 Victoria (Queen) 58 Index Vincent, Henry 8 VIZ 93 Vogt, A.E. Van 28 Voyrich, Ethel Lillia 95 Wagner, Richard 238-9 Walkerdine, Valerie 235 Wallace, Edgar 23, 30, 67, 109, 117, 145, 178, 213 Wallace, DeWitt 68 Waller, Robert James 228 Walpole, Hugh 23, 68 Ward, Arthur Henry 179-81 Ward, H. Snowden 172 Warhol, Andy 16-17, 233 Watson, Colin 125, 181 Waugh, Arthur 43 Waugh, Evelyn 110 Weber, Max 19,53 Webster's Army and Navy Dictionary 106 Webster's New Standard Dictionary 106 Webster, Noah 76 Wedekind, Frank 164 Weedon, Chris 241 Weekly Political Register 91 Weird Tales 195,201 Well of Loneliness, The 146 Welts, H.G 68 Werson, David 34 Wertham, Dr Fredric 141 West, Nathanael 22 Westbrook, Arthur 43 Westward Ho' 140 Wetherell, Elizabeth 52 Wheatley, Dennis 217 Williams, Raymond 122 Williams, William Carlos 79 Wilson, Angus 111 Wilson, Colin 111, 192, 204, 232 Wilson, Woodrow 84 Witherspoon, John 76 Wood, Ed 233-4 Wood, Lady Emma Caroline 95 Wood, Mrs Henry 95 Wood, Robert 217 Woolf, Virginia 68 Woolrich, Cornell 22 Worpole, Ken 241 Worrals of Liverpool 54 Wright Brothers 31 Yates, Dornford 178 Yeats, George 214 Yeats, W.B. 214 Yonge, Charlotte 52-3, 58, 67 Young, Toby 131 Your Destiny 36 Zapruder tape 237
