The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume 1: Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste

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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Notes on Contributors......Page 14 Introduction: Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes': The Publisher's Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings......Page 16 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......Page 77 2 The Paperback Revolution in France, 1850–1950......Page 87 3 Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright......Page 103 4 ‘To Undertake Such Works as They Find to Be Wanted': The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series......Page 121 5 Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap's Poetry and Life Series, 1911–1930......Page 140 6 Excavating Original African American 'Pulp Fiction': W.W. Norton's Old School Books......Page 156 7 The Symbiotic Relationship of Thomas Nelson and Sons and John Buchan within the Publisher's Series......Page 171 8 The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin's Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries......Page 186 9 Sifting out ‘Rubbish' in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties: Chatto and Windus and the Phoenix Library......Page 203 10 Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press: A Modern Press for Modern Times......Page 217 11 'Sound Information and Innocent Amusement': John Murray's Books on the Move......Page 234 Index......Page 252 Annotation 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 (among a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work
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 (among a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work. 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