The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume One

Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste

J. Spiers

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780230284029
• eBook ISBN: 9780230299368
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism Theory
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes': The Publisher's Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings
• 1 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
• 2 The Paperback Revolution in France, 1850–1950
• 3 Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright
• 4 ‘To Undertake Such Works as They Find to Be Wanted': The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series
• 5 Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap's Poetry and Life Series, 1911–1930
• 6 Excavating Original African American 'Pulp Fiction': W.W. Norton's Old School Books
• 7 The Symbiotic Relationship of Thomas Nelson and Sons and John Buchan within the Publisher's Series
• 8 The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin's Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries
• 9 Sifting out ‘Rubbish' in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties: Chatto and Windus and the Phoenix Library
• 10 Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press: A Modern Press for Modern Times
• 11 'Sound Information and Innocent Amusement': John Murray's Books on the Move
• Index