The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume Two [electronic resource] : Nationalisms and the National Canon /
Spiers, John.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction. Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes': The Publisher's Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings; 1 The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946; 2 The Foreign Series of Herder Verlag by 1900: International Catholic Literature; 3 Adamantios Korais's 'The Greek Library' (1805-1827): An Ingenious Publisher and the Making of a Nation; 4 Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library
5 Women's Series - by Women, for Women?6 Leonard Bast's Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition; 7 Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan's Colonial Library and Author Contracts; 8 Household Words: An Account of the 'Bengal Family Library'; 9 Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent's Everyman's Library; 10 'The Green and the Gold': Series Publishing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; 11 One Series after Another: The Macmillan Company of Canada; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Books-History.
Literature-History and criticism.
Printing.
History of the Book.
Literary History.
Printing and Publishing.