A Novel Marketplace SOCIAL SCIENCE / General from Veggie Tales to The

from Veggie Tales to The Passion of the Christ

over hills covered in vines

and recurrent displacement

and other activities to encourage active learning

old human beings

A Novel Marketplace SOCIAL SCIENCE / General from Veggie Tales to TheAs television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly pervasive mass medium on the nation's literature. While many studies have addressed the rhetorical response of artists and intellectuals to mid twentieth century mass culture, the relationship between the emergence of this culture and the production of novels has gone largely unexamined. In A Novel Marketplace, Evan Brier illuminates the complex ties