Uniform Title Book world (Wilson) Title The book world : selling and distributing British literature, 1900-1940 / edited by Nicola Wilson

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Series Library of the written word ; volume 49 The industrial world ; volume 6 Industrial world ; v. 6 Library of the written word ; v. 49. Contents Introduction : the book world / Nicola Wilson -- British publishers and colonial editions / Nicola Wilson -- A trade in desires : emigration, A.C. Gunter and the Home Publishing Company / Simon Frost -- "Introductions by eminent writers" : T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the Oxford world's classics series / Lise Jaillant -- Literary success and popular romantic fiction : Ethel M. Dell, a case study / David Tanner -- "The market is getting flooded with them" : Richard Aldington's Death of a hero and the war books boom / Vincent Trott -- Genre at the Hogarth Press / Claire Battershill -- Alec Craig, censorship and the literary marketplace : a bookman's struggles / Richard Espley -- Boots Book-lovers' Library : domesticating the exotic and building provincial literary taste / Sally Dugan -- Readers and reading patterns : oral history and the archive / Nickianne Moody -- Surveying the trade : The book world and its translocal reach / Sydney J. Shep Summary British literature underwent profound changes in the period 1900-1940. What role did audiences and channels of book distribution play in this? In this wide-ranging collection, the influence of publishers, distributors, librarians and readers come to the foreground to open up new perspectives on literature and print culture. Rooted in original archival research, chapters include studies of the engagement of canonical writers and bestsellers with the literary marketplace; the influence of international and mobile audiences; publishing practices involving genre, promotion, and censorship; and the significance of spaces of reading including bookshops, circulating libraries and on-board passenger ships. Through a series of detailed case-studies that focus on under-explored aspects of distribution and readership, the contributors open up new perspectives on literature and the British book trade Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century English literature -- Publishing -- History -- 20th century Books -- Marketing -- History -- 20th century Books and reading -- History -- 20th century Subscription libraries -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Authors and publishers -- History -- 20th century Authors and readers -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General. Authors and publishers Authors and readers Book industries and trade Books and reading Books -- Marketing Censorship English literature -- Publishing Subscription libraries Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Wilson, Nicola, 1980- editor. LC no. 2016019083 ISBN 9789004315884 9004315888

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