In fact dime novels weren’t just widely available but were decried as the source of truancy and corruption of youth! Sound familiar?
In fact dime novels weren’t just widely available but were decried as the source of truancy and corruption of youth! Sound familiar?
A funny thing to vote down as it’s so well known. Dime novels, TV, video games, social media…anything new is a candidate to be attacked as corrupting “kids these days”. Even Socrates (recounted in Phaedrus) said that writing would be the downfall of students.
Here’s a very brief example on the dime novel case: https://techlashed.org/panic/cheap-popular-fiction-penny-dre...