Author:
Pfitzer, Gregory M.
Imprint:Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2008.
Descriptionxiv, 469 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:"Whatever popularizes vulgarizes" : defining popular history -- When popular history was popular : Washington Irving, George Lippard, John Frost, and book culture in the nineteenth century -- The "terrible image breaker" : William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Gay, and Scribner's hybrid history -- The metahistorian as popularizer : John Clark Ridpath and the universal laws of popular history -- "The past everything" : Edward Eggleston, realism, and the rise of the "new" history -- "A background of real history" : Edward S. Ellis and the dime novel as popular history -- Writing himself out of trouble : Julian Hawthorne and the commercialism of popular history -- The unpopularity of popular history.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-454) and index.
