The Book World ：Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940

Publication series ：1

Author： Wilson   Nicola Louise  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9789004315884

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004315860

Subject： K1 World History

Keyword： 世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

In this wide-ranging collection, the impact of distribution and the institutions and practices of reading are explored to open up new perspectives on the British book trade and the production, circulation and consumption of literature in the early twentieth century.

Chapter

The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900–1940

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1: Introduction: The Book World

Part 1: Audiences

2: British Publishers and Colonial Editions

3: A Trade in Desires: Emigration, A.C. Gunter and the Home Publishing Company

4: “Introductions by Eminent Writers”: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the Oxford World’s Classics Series

Part 2: Genre, Marketing, and Censorship

5: Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study

6: “The Market is Getting Flooded with Them”: Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero and the War Books Boom

7: Genre at the Hogarth Press

8: Alec Craig, Censorship and the Literary Marketplace: A Bookman’s Struggles

Part 3: Libraries and Reading Spaces

9: Boots Book-Lovers’ Library: Domesticating the Exotic and Building Provincial Literary Taste

10: Readers and Reading Patterns: Oral History and the Archive

Part 4: Postscript

11: Surveying the Trade: The Book World and its Translocal Reach

Bibliography

Index

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