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Title The culture of the publisher's series. Volume 2, nationalisms and the national canon / edited and with an introduction by John Spiers
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Wondering about 'the causes of causes' : the publisher's series, its cultural work and meanings, part two: The series, the Academy and the world / John Spiers -- The American publisher's series goes to war, 1942-1946 / John B. Hench -- the foreign series of Herder Verlag by 1900 : international Catholic literature / Álvaro Ceballos Viro -- Adamantios Korais's 'The Greek library' (1805-1827) : an ingenious publisher and the making of a nation / Nassia Yakovaki -- Fabricating a national canon : the role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in developing and marketing the Australian library / Alison Rukavina -- Women's series--by women, for women? / Lisa Kuitert -- Leonard Bast's library : aspiration, emulation and the imperial national tradition / Robert Fraser -- Negotiating the list : launching Macmillan's Colonial library and author contracts / Shafquat Towheed -- Household words : an account of the 'Bengal family library' / Abhijit Gupta -- Great books by the millions : J.M. Dent's Everyman's library / Terry I. Seymour -- 'The green and the gold' : series publishing in nineteenth-century Ireland / Elizabeth Tilley -- One series after another : the MAcmillan Company of Canada / Ruth Panofsky
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 28, 2020)
Subject Monographic series -- Publishing -- History
Series (Publications) -- Publishing -- History
Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects -- History
Book industries and trade -- Social aspects -- History
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History
Books -- Social aspects -- History
Authors and readers -- History
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
Authors and readers
Book industries and trade -- Social aspects
Books and reading -- Social aspects
Monographic series -- Publishing
Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Spiers, John, 1941- editor.
ISBN 9780230299399
0230299393
Other Titles Nationalisms and the national canon