Bestsellers : a very short introduction / John Sutherland.

• Definitions -- The modern scene -- Fields and lists -- The American bestseller -- The British bestseller -- The future of the bestseller : is there one?. 

• "This Very Short Introduction takes a look through 'bestseller lists' since their arrival on the scene in the 1980s, to show that these lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literary fiction and are therefore worthy of serious study. Examining how these books reflect the fashions and ideologies of the day, it asks what separates bestsellers from canonical fiction, lifts the lid on the bestseller industry, and includes lively summaries of bestsellers through the years, from Huckleberry Finn to The Da Vinci Code, via many long-forgotten, but once bestselling, titles."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

American fiction  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English fiction  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Popular literature  -- United States -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Popular literature  -- Great Britain -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Best sellers  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Best sellers  -- Great Britain -- History. (LCSH)

American fiction.  (fast)

Best sellers.  (fast)

English fiction.  (fast)

Popular literature.  (fast)

Englisch  (gnd)

Roman  (gnd)

Bestseller  (gnd)

Bestseller.  (idszbz)

Literatur.  (idszbz)

Amerikanisch.  (idszbz)

Englisch.  (idszbz)

Englisch : Roman.  (swd)

American fiction  -- History and criticism. (cct)

English fiction  -- History and criticism. (cct)

Popular literature  -- History and criticism. -- United States. (cct)

Popular literature  -- History and criticism. -- Great Britain. (cct)

Best sellers  -- History. -- United States. (cct)

Best sellers  -- History. -- Great Britain. (cct)

Bestsellers  -- historia (sao)

Best sellers  -- Great Britain.

Best sellers  -- United States.

Books and reading  -- Great Britain.

Books and reading  -- United States.

Great Britain.  (fast)

United States.  (fast)

USA  (gnd)

Großbritannien  (gnd)

Geschichte  (swd)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PS371 (LCC)

813.009 (DDC)

I04 (clc)

HG 127 (rvk)