The book world : : selling and distributing British literature, 1900-1940 / / edited by Nicola Wilson.
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 lite...
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| Superior document: | Library of the Written Word, Volume 49 |
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| 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. |
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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.