| Description |
1 online resource (235 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Note on the Text; 1 Economics and the Flowering of the British Short Story; 2 The Business of Authorship; 3 How Much Money Does an Author Need?; 4 Publishing Conditions in England, 1880-1950; 5 Authors' Careers: The Development of the Short Story in Britain, 1880-1914; 6 Short Stories and the Magazines; 7 Magazines' Restraints on Art in the Service of Commerce; 8 Short Stories in Book Form; 9 Sales of Short Story Collections and Novels; 10 First Editions, Limited Editions and Manuscripts |
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11 The British Short Story and its Reviewers12 Vitality and Variety in the British Short Story, 1915-50; 13 Art and Commerce in the British Short Story; Chronology; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
The short story was a commercial phenomenon which took off in the late nineteenth century and lasted through to the rise of television and film. Baldwin uses a wide variety of sources to show how economic factors helped to dictate how and what a wide variety of authors wrote |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317321941 |
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1317321944 |
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