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The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume One

Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste

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Editors:
  1. John Spiers

    1. Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
      School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, University of Glamorgan, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • John Spiers
    Pages 1-61

  3. Market Forces and Modernisation 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 the Publisher’s Series

    • Wallace Kirsop
    Pages 62-71

  4. The Paperback Revolution in France, 1850–1950

    • Isabelle Olivero
    Pages 72-87

  5. Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright

    • Gordon B. Neavill
    Pages 88-105

  6. ‘To Undertake Such Works as They Find to Be Wanted’: The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series

    • Simon Eliot
    Pages 106-124

  7. Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap’s Poetry and Life Series, 1911–1930

    • Patrick Buckridge
    Pages 125-140

  8. Excavating Original African American ‘Pulp Fiction’: W.W. Norton’s Old School Books

    • Cécile Cottenet
    Pages 141-155

  9. The Symbiotic Relationship of Thomas Nelson & Sons and John Buchan within the Publisher’s Series

    • Kate Macdonald
    Pages 156-170

  10. The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin’s Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries

    • Frederick Nesta
    Pages 171-187

  11. Sifting out ‘Rubbish’ in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties: Chatto & Windus and the Phoenix Library

    • Andrew Nash
    Pages 188-201

  12. Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press: A Modern Press for Modern Times

    • Michele K. Troy
    Pages 202-218

  13. ‘Sound Information and Innocent Amusement’: John Murray’s Books on the Move

    • Barbara Schaff
    Pages 219-236

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 237-257
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About this book

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 (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.

Reviews

'An invaluable and engrossing re-evaluation of the Publishers Series, providing stimulating international comparisons and a lasting and important contribution to modern social and cultural history' - James Raven, Professor in Modern History, University of Essex, UK

'The phenomenon of the publisher's series - so central to 18th and 19th-century publishing and reading practices - has never before been considered so fully. In the sheer breadth of the new material they encompass, enabling comparisons across time and space, these volumes will prove invaluable to students and scholars alike.' - Mary Hammond, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Southampton, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

    John Spiers

  • School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, University of Glamorgan, UK

    John Spiers

About the editor

VOLUME I PATRICK BUCKRIDGE Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Griffith University, Australia CECILE COTTENET Assistant-Professor, Universite de Provence, Aix-Marseille I, France SIMON ELIOT Professor of the History of the Book, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK WALLACE KIRSOP Independent scholar, Australia KATE MACDONALD Senior Researcher, Department of English, University of Ghent, Belgium ANDREW NASH Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies, University of Reading, UK GORDON B. NEAVILL Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Wayne State University, USA FREDERICK NESTA Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK ISABELLE OLIVERO independent scholar, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France BARBARA SCHAFF Professor of Literature and Culture, Gottingen University, Germany JOHN SPIERS Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK MICHELLE K. TROY Associate Professor of History, Hillyer College, University of Hartford, USA VOLUME II ROBERT FRASER Professor of English, Open University, UK JOHN B. HENCH Independent scholar, USA ABHIJIT GUPTA Reader in English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India LISA KUITERT Professor in Book History and Manuscript Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands RUTH PANOFSKY Associate Professor English, Ryerson University, Canada ALISON RUKAVINA Instructor in Department of Film and English Studies, University of Alberta, Canada TERRY I. SEYMOUR Independent scholar, USA JOHN SPIERS Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, UK ELIZABETH TILLEY National University of Ireland, Galway, Eire SHAFQUAT TOWHEED Lecturer in Literature, Open University, UK ALVARO CEBALLOS VIRO Independent scholar, Germany NASSIA YAKOVAKI Assistant Professor on Early Modern European History, University of Thessally, Greece

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume One

  • Book Subtitle: Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste

  • Editors: John Spiers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299368

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28402-9Published: 18 February 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32920-5Published: 01 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29936-8Published: 18 February 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 257

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory

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