Juri Nummelin wrote:
> Ray Skirsky wrote:
>
> > I have some 1890s Strand magazines, and they
look like pulps, but the paper
> > was slick. The
> > type of fiction in them is more akin to
American pulps than to American
> > slicks.
>
> Well, this poses quite a problem: in 1890s there
were no pulps, so how can one say
> that the type of fiction in Strand magazines was
akin to pulp. I know that Argosy
> started in 1896, but was it real pulp at the time? I
don't think so. Maybe you're
> thinking dime novel fiction, which certainly was a
forerunner to much of the pulp
> fiction.
Strictly speaking dime novels were published in America;
penny dreadfuls/ penny bloods were published in the U.K. If
we're going to split semantical hairs about what pulps are,
we should be equally strict about other genres' terminology.
:-)
> > If you don't consider
> > Sherlock Holmes pulp, then what about Prof.
Challenger?
>
> I don't know such character.
The lead in A. Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD.
jess Pulp and Adventure Heroes of the Pre-War Years http://www.geocities.com/jjnevins/pulpsintro.html
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