The Culture of the Publishers Series, Volume One: Authors, Publishers and the S [Hardcover]

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.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes'. The Publisher's Series, its Cultural Work and Meanings PART I: The Methodologies of Series and the Limits of Knowledge; J.Spiers Market Forces and Modernization in the French Book Trade in the Last Century of the 'Ancien Regime' and in the early 20th Century: Some Reflections on the Emergence of the Publisher's Series; W.Kirsop The Invention of the Book Series in France, 1850-1950; I.Olivero Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright; G.B.Neavill 'To undertake such works as they find to be wanted': The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series; S.Eliot Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap's 'Poetry and Life' Series, 1911-1930; P.Buckridge Excavating original African-American 'pulp fiction': W. W. Norton's 'Old School Books' Series; C.Cottenet Thomas Nelson's and John Buchan: Mutual Marketing in the Publisher's Series; K.Macdonald The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin's 'Pseudonym' and 'Autonym' Libraries; F.Nesta Sifting out 'Rubbish' in the Literature of the 1920s: Chatto and Windus and the 'Phoenix Library'; A.Nash A Modern Library for Modern Times. Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press; M.K.Troy Sound Information and Innocent Amusement: John Murray's Books on the Move; B.Schaff Index

'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

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