The culture of the publisher's series
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The culture of the publisher's series
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- v. 1 : hardback
- v. 2 : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- v. 1. Authors, publishers and the shaping of taste
- v. 2. Nationalisms and the national canon
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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v. 1 : hardback ISBN 9780230284029
Description
This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes'. The Publisher's Series, its Cultural Work and Meanings PART I: The Methodologies of Series and the Limits of Knowledge
- J.Spiers Market Forces and Modernization in the French Book Trade in the Last Century of the 'Ancien Regime' and in the early 20th Century: Some Reflections on the Emergence of the Publisher's Series
- W.Kirsop The Invention of the Book Series in France, 1850-1950
- I.Olivero Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright
- G.B.Neavill 'To undertake such works as they find to be wanted': The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series
- S.Eliot Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap's 'Poetry and Life' Series, 1911-1930
- P.Buckridge Excavating original African-American 'pulp fiction': W. W. Norton's 'Old School Books' Series
- C.Cottenet Thomas Nelson's and John Buchan: Mutual Marketing in the Publisher's Series
- K.Macdonald The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin's 'Pseudonym' and 'Autonym' Libraries
- F.Nesta Sifting out 'Rubbish' in the Literature of the 1920s: Chatto and Windus and the 'Phoenix Library'
- A.Nash A Modern Library for Modern Times. Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press
- M.K.Troy Sound Information and Innocent Amusement: John Murray's Books on the Move
- B.Schaff Index
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v. 2 : hardback ISBN 9780230284036
Description
This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes'. The Publisher's Series, its Cultural Work and Meanings PART II: The Series, the Academy, and the World
- J.Spiers The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946, J.B.Hench The Spanish Collections of Herder Verlag: International Catholic Literature
- A.C.Viro Adamantios Korais' The Greek Library (1805-1827): An Ingenious Publisher and The Making of a Nation
- N.Yakovaki Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library
- A.Rukavina Series for Women in 19th Century Netherlandsl
- L.Kuitert Leonard Bast's Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition
- R.Fraser Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan's Colonial Library and Author Contracts
- S.Towheed Household Words: An Account of the 'Bengal Family Library'
- A.Gupta Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent's 'Everyman Library'
- T.I.Seymour 'The Green and the Gold': Publisher's Series in 19th-century Ireland
- E.Tilley One Series After Another: The Macmillan Company of Canada
- R.Panofsky Index
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