Studies in Popular Culture, 31.1 (Fall 2008)

STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE

FALL 2008 | 31.1 [go here to find a pdf of the entire issue]

Table of Contents

v From the Editor: Popular Culture of the Past

1 From Apicius to Gastroporn: Form, Function, and Ideology in the History of Cookery Books

Abigail Dennis

19 Queer Investigations: Foxy Ladies and Dandy Detectives in American Dime Novels

Pamela Bedore

39 Literary Art in an Age of Formula Fiction and Mass Consumption: Double Coding in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Blue Carbuncle”

Nils Clausson

55 Lost Girl: Diminishing Dorothy of Oz

SydneyDuncan

69 The Protean Character of Jello, Icon of Food and Identity

Susan Grove Hall

81 Gazing on Fu-Manchu: Obscurity and Imperial Crisis in the Work of Sax Rohmer

Rebecca Wingfield

99 “To Renew the Old World”: Record Collecting as Cultural Production

Kevin Moist

123 Book Reviews