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  • British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914

    British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914 by McDonald, Peter D.;

    Series: Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 28 August 1997

    • ISBN 9780521571494
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages244 pages
    • Size 229x152x17 mm
    • Weight 530 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book examines the early publishing careers of three highly influential writers, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, and Arthur Conan Doyle.

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    Long description:

    This book examines the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880-1914 as seen through the early publishing careers of three highly influential writers, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and Arthur Conan Doyle. Peter D. McDonald examines the cultural politics of the period by considering the social structure of the literary world in which these writers were read and understood. Through a wealth of historical detail, he links the publishing history of key texts with the wider commercial, ideological, and literary themes in the period as a whole. By tracing the complex network of relationships among writers, publishers, printers, distributors, reviewers, and readers, McDonald demonstrates that the discursive qualities of these texts cannot be fully appreciated without understanding the material conditions of their production. In so doing, he makes social history a central part of literary studies, and shows the importance of the history of publishing in questions of critical interpretation.

    'No-one interested in the social and literary history of the period could fail to learn more about its complexities from [this] book.' Library Association Record

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction; 1. Men of letters and children of the sea: Joseph Conrad and the Henley circle; 2. Playing the field: Arnold Bennett as novelist, serialist and journalist; 3. Light reading and the dignity of letters: George Newnes, Ltd and the making of Arthur Conan Doyle; Postscript.

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