Empires of print : adventure fiction in the magazines, 1899-1919
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Empires of print : adventure fiction in the magazines, 1899-1919
Routledge, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-240) and index
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular fiction, particularly the adventure genre, developed in ways that directly correlate with authors' experiences, and shows that popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emerged as one way of marketing their literary works to expanding audiences of readers worldwide. Despite an over-determined print space altered by the rise of new kinds of consumers and transformations of accepted habits of reading, publishing, and writing, the changes in British and American publishing at the turn of the twentieth century inspired an exciting new period of literary invention and experimentation in the adventure genre, and the greater part of that invention and experimentation was happening in the magazines.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Print in Transition: Magazines, Adventure, and Threats of New Media, 1880-1920
1: Empires of Print: An Imperial History of Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Expansion
Part I: "The History of Text Involves the History of its Dissemination"
The Imperial Press Conference of 1909
Periodical Expansion, Publishing Networks
Periodical Expansion and the Media Empire
Part II: Popular Adventure Fiction and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Form
"My Empire is of the Imagination"
2: Imperial Technologies: Adventure and the Threat of New Media in Conrad's Lord Jim (1899)
Conrad as a Blackwood's Author
Blackwood's at the Turn of the Century
Serializing Lord Jim's Patusan Section
3: Transatlantic Crossings: The Technological Scene of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay (1909)
The Materiality of Texts and Simultaneous Transatlantic Serialization
Collating and Comparing Two "First" Appearances: Title-Level
Collating and Comparing Two "First" Appearances: Issue and Constituent-Level
Conclusion
4: Spectacular Texts: Conan Doyle's Essays on Photography and The Lost World (1912)
Part I: Essays on Photography
Part II: Picturing the Lost World
5: Deciphered Codes: John Buchan in All-Story Weekly (1915) and The Popular Magazine (1919)
The Pulp Buchan
British Institutions, American Pulps
A Master of Pace: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
Breaking the Pulp Code: Mr. Standfast (1919)
Conclusion
Conclusion: Lost in Transit: Sax Rohmer, Conan Doyle, and Baroness Orczy's Eldorado (1913) in Africa
Appendix A: British and American Books, Magazines, and Newspapers: Titles by Year (1860-1922)
Appendix B: Representative Authors' Payments for First UK & U.S. Serial Rights (1884-1938)
Appendix C: Average Delivery Time of Mail Packet Steamers by Decade (1840-1920)
Appendix D: Major International Copyright Legislation Affecting Authors (1880-1920)
Appendix E: Commercial Statistics of the Principal Countries of the World (1904-1906)
Appendix F: American Pulp Magazine Circulations (1900-1922)
Appendix G: Advertising Ratios in Representative British and American Magazines (1919)
Appendix H: List of Magazines, Newspapers, etc., Found Loose (Kenya Gazette, May 1913)
Appendix I: Combined Monthly Totals from "List of Magazines, Newspapers, etc.," Kenya Gazette, 1900-22
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"