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Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital: Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital


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Exploring the intersection of publishing history, book history, and literary and cultural studies, this series supports innovative work on the cultural significance and creative impact of printing and publishing history, including reception, distribution, and translation or adaptation into other media. Proposals are welcome for interdisciplinary and comparative studies by humanities scholars and librarians working in a variety of fields, including literature; book history, periodicals history, and print culture and the sociology of texts; theater, film, and performance studies; library history; history; gender studies; and cultural studies. Topics might include, among other possibilities, publishing histories of major figures or works, of regions, of genres, or studies of particular publishers or practices (including production, distribution, and reception) that hold special aesthetic, social, or political significance. We especially welcome focused argument-driven work that investigates and historicizes new or hybrid forms of text creation and dissemination, including nonprint materials, informal, specialized or private reception and distribution networks, the translation of TV and movies into print, and multimedia publishing practices.

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Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend A Publishing History

Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History

1st Edition

By Sean Grass
June 12, 2019

Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dickens's return to the monthly number format after nearly a decade of writing fiction designed for ...

Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency

Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade: American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency

1st Edition

By Cécile Cottenet
March 17, 2017

By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light on the material conditions of the ...

Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Print Culture

Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Print Culture

1st Edition

By Jennifer Julia Sorensen
January 06, 2017

The years from 1890 through 1935 witnessed an explosion of print, both in terms of the variety of venues for publication and in the vast circulation figures and the quantity of print forums. Arguing that the formal strategies of modernist texts can only be fully understood in the context of the ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text: A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel

1st Edition

By Richard J. Hill
December 06, 2016

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson is one of the most copied and interpreted authors of the late nineteenth century, especially his novels Treasure ...

James Joyce's 'Work in Progress' Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments

James Joyce's 'Work in Progress': Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments

1st Edition

By Dirk Van Hulle
May 05, 2016

The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. And while they are ...

The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop: Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

1st Edition

By Huw Osborne
August 14, 2015

The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist ...

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