The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume Two: 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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction. Wondering about ‘the Causes of Causes’: The Publisher’s Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings....Pages 1-47 The American Publisher’s Series Goes to War, 1942–1946....Pages 48-61 The Foreign Series of Herder Verlag by 1900: International Catholic Literature....Pages 62-71 Adamantios Korais’s ‘The Greek Library’ (1805–1827): An Ingenious Publisher and the Making of a Nation....Pages 72-90 Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library....Pages 91-104 Women’s Series — by Women, for Women?....Pages 105-115 Leonard Bast’s Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition....Pages 116-133 Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan’s Colonial Library and Author Contracts....Pages 134-151 Household Words: An Account of the ‘Bengal Family Library’....Pages 152-165 Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent’s Everyman’s Library....Pages 166-172 ‘The Green and the Gold’: Series Publishing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland....Pages 173-183 One Series after Another: The Macmillan Company of Canada....Pages 184-198 Back Matter....Pages 199-220