Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction: Wondering about 'the causes of causes' : the publisher's series, its cultural work and meanings, part one: The methodologies of series and the limits of knowledge / John Spiers -- Market forces and moderisation 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 publisher's series / Wallace Kirsop -- The paperback revolution in France, 1850-1950 / Isabelle Olivero -- Canonicity, reprint publishing, and copyright / Gordon B. Neavill -- 'To undertake such works as they find to be wanted' : the early years of the Clarendon Press series / Simon Eliot -- Personality, appreciation and literary education : Harrap's Poetry and life series, 1911-1930 / Patrick Buckridge -- Excavating original African American 'pulp fiction' : W.W. Norton's Old school books / Cécile Cottenet -- The symbiotic relationship of Thomas Nelson & Sons and John Buchan within the publisher's series / Kate Macdonald -- The series as commodity : marketing T. Fisher Unwin's Pseudonym and Autonym libraries / Frederick Nesta -- Sifting out 'rubbish' in the literature of the twenties and thirties : Chatto & Windus and the Phoenix library / Andrew Nash -- Behind the scenes at the Albatross Press : a modern press for modern times / Michele K. Troy -- 'Sound information and innocent amusement' : John Murray's books on the move / Barbara Schaff |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Monographic series -- Publishing -- History
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Series (Publications) -- Publishing -- History
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Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects -- History
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Book industries and trade -- Social aspects -- History
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Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History
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Books -- Social aspects -- History
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Authors and readers -- History
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Authors and publishers -- History
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Publishers and publishing -- History
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Literature, Modern -- Appreciation -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
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Authors and publishers
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Authors and readers
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Book industries and trade -- Social aspects
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Books and reading -- Social aspects
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Literature, Modern -- Appreciation
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Monographic series -- Publishing
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Publishers and publishing
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Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Spiers, John, 1941-
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ISBN |
9780230299368 |
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0230299369 |
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0230284027 |
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9780230284029 |
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