The book world : : selling and distributing British literature, 1900-1940 / / edited by Nicola Wilson.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word, Volume 49
• TeilnehmendeR: Wilson, Nicola, 1980-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 49.; Library of the written word. Industrial world ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

British literature underwent profound changes in the period 1900-1940. What role did audiences and channels of book distribution play in this? In this wide-ranging collection, the influence of publishers, distributors, librarians and readers come to the foreground to open up new perspectives on literature and print culture. Rooted in original archival research, chapters include studies of the engagement of canonical writers and bestsellers with the literary marketplace; the influence of international and mobile audiences; publishing practices involving genre, promotion, and censorship; and the significance of spaces of reading including bookshops, circulating libraries and on-board passenger ships. Through a series of detailed case-studies that focus on under-explored aspects of distribution and readership, the contributors open up new perspectives on literature and the British book trade.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Nicola Wilson -- Introduction: The Book World / Nicola Wilson -- British Publishers and Colonial Editions / Nicola Wilson -- A Trade in Desires: Emigration, A.C. Gunter and the Home Publishing Company / Simon Frost -- “Introductions by Eminent Writers”: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the Oxford World’s Classics Series / Lise Jaillant -- Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study / David Tanner -- “The Market is Getting Flooded with Them”: Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero and the War Books Boom / Vincent Trott -- Genre at the Hogarth Press / Claire Battershill -- Alec Craig, Censorship and the Literary Marketplace: A Bookman’s Struggles / Richard Espley -- Boots Book-Lovers’ Library: Domesticating the Exotic and Building Provincial Literary Taste / Sally Dugan -- Readers and Reading Patterns: Oral History and the Archive / Nickianne Moody -- Surveying the Trade: The Book World and its Translocal Reach / Sydney J. Shep -- Bibliography / Nicola Wilson -- Index / Nicola Wilson.