pulp literature
Disposable genre fiction
Pulp literature refers to cheap, sensational fiction mass-produced on rough wood-pulp paper from the 1890s through the 1950s.
The pulps published detective stories, westerns, science fiction, horror, and romance at high volume and low cost.
The term now describes any fiction with similar qualities—fast-paced, plot-driven, unsubtle: The novel was pure pulp, but I couldn't put it down.
- cliffhangersUnresolved dramatic conclusions
- dime novelsCheap sensational 19th-century fiction
- pop cultureMass entertainment and trends
- comic booksIllustrated periodical narratives
- adventureRisky exciting undertaking
damsel in distress · The Shadow · Edgar Rice Burroughs · Dashiell Hammett · crime · melodrama · detective fiction · horror · newsstands · cheap thrills · penny dreadfuls · film noir · Raymond Chandler · vivid imagery · blood and thunder · archetypes · science fiction · cover art
pulp literatureliterary fiction
Prose emphasizing craft and depth
belles-lettres · the classics · Nobel laureates · Penguin Classics
pulp literaturedeluxe editions
Enhanced product versions
collector's editions · limited editions · hardcover editions · leather-bound books · coffee table books
pulp literatureexperimental fiction
Nontraditional narrative prose
modernist literature · postmodern fiction · art for art's sake · metafiction
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