The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume 2 : Nationalisms and the National Canon

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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Notes on Contributors......Page 13 Introduction. Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes': The Publisher's Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings......Page 14 1 The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942–1946......Page 61 2 The Foreign Series of Herder Verlag by 1900: International Catholic Literature......Page 75 3 Adamantios Korais's 'The Greek Library' (1805–1827): An Ingenious Publisher and the Making of a Nation......Page 85 4 Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library......Page 104 5 Women's Series – by Women, for Women?......Page 118 6 Leonard Bast's Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition......Page 129 7 Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan's Colonial Library and Author Contracts......Page 147 8 Household Words: An Account of the 'Bengal Family Library'......Page 165 9 Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent's Everyman's Library......Page 179 10 'The Green and the Gold': Series Publishing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland......Page 186 11 One Series after Another: The Macmillan Company of Canada......Page 197 Index......Page 212 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.