The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume One [electronic resource] : Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste /
Spiers, John.editor.
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.
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 Market Forces and Modernisation in the French Book Trade in the Last Century of the 'Ancien Régime' and in the Early Nineteenth Century: Some Reflections on the Emergence of the Publisher's Series; 2 The Paperback Revolution in France, 1850-1950; 3 Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright; 4 'To Undertake Such Works as They Find to Be Wanted': The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series
5 Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap's Poetry and Life Series, 1911-19306 Excavating Original African American 'Pulp Fiction': W.W. Norton's Old School Books; 7 The Symbiotic Relationship of Thomas Nelson and Sons and John Buchan within the Publisher's Series; 8 The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin's Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries; 9 Sifting out 'Rubbish' in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties: Chatto and Windus and the Phoenix Library; 10 Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press: A Modern Press for Modern Times
11 'Sound Information and Innocent Amusement': John Murray's Books on the MoveIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.