The culture of the publisher's series v. 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 witharchival 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. JOHN SPIERS is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies,UK, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He is also adistinguished publisher, founding the Harvester Press in 1969. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -Introduction: Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes'. The Publisher's Series,its Cultural Work and Meanings - PART I: The Methodologies of Series and the Limits of Knowledge; 'J.Spiers' - Market Forces and Modernization in the French Book Trade in the Last Century of the 'Ancien Regime' and in the early 20th Century: Some Reflections on the Emergence of the Publisher's Series; 'W.Kirsop' - The Invention of the Book Series in France, 1850-1950; 'I.Olivero' - Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright; 'G.B.Neavill' - 'To undertake such works as they find to be wanted': The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series; 'S.Eliot' - Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap's 'Poetry and Life' Series, 1911-1930; 'P.Buckridge' - Excavating original African-American 'pulp fiction': W. W. Norton's 'Old School Books' Series; 'C.Cottenet - 'Thomas Nelson's and John Buchan: Mutual Marketing in the Publisher's Series; 'K.Macdonald' - The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin's 'Pseudonym' and 'Autonym' Libraries; 'F.Nesta' - Sifting out 'Rubbish' in the Literature of the 1920s: Chatto and Windus and the 'Phoenix Library'; 'A.Nash' - A Modern Library for Modern Times. Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press; 'M.K.Troy' - Sound Information and Innocent Amusement: John Murray's Books on the Move; 'B.Schaff' - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28402-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 18/02/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido