The fiction of history: The Da Vinci Code and the virtual public sphere / Stephen J. Mexal. Missing numbers: the partial history of the bestseller / Sarah Garland -- The history of Charlotte Temple as an American bestseller / Gideon Mailer -- "Like beads strung together": E.D.E.N. Southworth and the aesthetics of popular serial fiction / Rachel Ihara -- Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and the visual culture of temperance / William Gleason -- "The Man Without a Country": Treason, expansionism, and the history of a "bestselling" short story / Hsuan L. Hsu -- Exhilaration and enlightenment in the biblical bestseller: Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur, A tale of Christ / James Russell -- "Absolutely punk": Queer economies of desire in Tarzan of the Apes / J. Michell Coghlan -- Ornamentalism: desire, disavowal, and displacement in E.M. Hull's The Sheik / Sarah Garland -- Small change? Emily Post's Etiquette (1922-2012) / Grace Lees-Maffei -- Blockbuster feminism: Peyton Place and the uses of scandal / Ardis Cameron -- Crimes and bestsellers: Mario Puzo's path to The Godfather / Evan Brier -- Master of sentiment: the romances of Nicholas Sparks / Sarah Churchwell -- The Kite Runner's transnational allegory: anatomy of an Afghan-American bestseller / Georgiana Banita -- The fiction of history: The Da Vinci Code and the virtual public sphere / Stephen J. Mexal.
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