The book world : selling and distributing British literature, 1900-1940 /

British literature underwent profound changes in the period 1900-1940. What role did audiences and channels of book distribution play in this? In this wide-ranging collection, the influence of publishers, distributors, librarians and readers come to the foreground to open up new perspectives on lite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wilson, Nicola, 1980- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Industrial world ; v. 6.
Library of the written word ; v. 49.
Temas:
1900-1999
Book industries and trade > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
English literature > Publishing > History > 20th century.
Books > Marketing > History > 20th century.
Books and reading > History > 20th century.
Subscription libraries > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Censorship > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Authors and publishers > History > 20th century.
Authors and readers > History > 20th century.
Livres > Industrie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Livres et lecture > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Bibliothèques de prêt payant > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Écrivains et éditeurs > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Écrivains et lecteurs > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Sales & Selling > General.
Authors and publishers.
Authors and readers.
Book industries and trade.
Books and reading.
Books > Marketing.
Censorship.
English literature > Publishing.
Subscription libraries.
Great Britain.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the book world / Nicola Wilson
  • British publishers and colonial editions / Nicola Wilson
  • A trade in desires : emigration, A.C. Gunter and the Home Publishing Company / Simon Frost
  • "Introductions by eminent writers" : T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the Oxford world's classics series / Lise Jaillant
  • Literary success and popular romantic fiction : Ethel M. Dell, a case study / David Tanner
  • "The market is getting flooded with them" : Richard Aldington's Death of a hero and the war books boom / Vincent Trott
  • Genre at the Hogarth Press / Claire Battershill
  • Alec Craig, censorship and the literary marketplace : a bookman's struggles / Richard Espley
  • Boots Book-lovers' Library : domesticating the exotic and building provincial literary taste / Sally Dugan
  • Readers and reading patterns : oral history and the archive / Nickianne Moody
  • Surveying the trade : The book world and its translocal reach / Sydney J. Shep.

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