The book world : selling and distributing British literature, 1900-1940 / edited by Nicola Wilson.
Alternate Title(s):
Book world (Wilson)
Published / Created:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Physical Description:
xi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Terms:
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. | Authors and publishers. | Authors and readers. | Book industries and trade. | Books and reading. | Books -- Marketing. | Censorship. | English literature -- Publishing. | Subscription libraries. | Great Britain.