Professional Literary Agent in Britain / / Mary Ann Gillies.
Breaking new ground in the study of British literary culture during an important, transitional period, this new work by Mary Ann Gillies focuses on the professional literary agent whose emergence in Britain around 1880 coincided with, and accelerated, the transformation of both publishing and author...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Book and Print Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Introduction
- 1. Why Did the Professional Literary Agent Emerge in the 1880s?
- 2. A.P. Watt: Professional Literary Agent
- 3. Establishing the Agency Model: George MacDonald and Watt
- 4. Testing the Agency Model: 'Lucas Malet' and Watt
- 5. The Second Wave of Agenting: J.B. Pinker
- 6. The Agent and 'Popular' Literature: Somerville and Ross and Pinker
- 7. Building a Career: Joseph Conrad and Pinker
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Backmatter