Victorian Publishing

Author : Alexis Weedon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351875868

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Victorian Publishing by Alexis Weedon Pdf

Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain. Chapters explore the significance of the export trade to the colonies and the rising importance of towns outside London as centres of publishing; the influence of technological change in increasing the variety and quantity of books; and how the business practice of literary publishing developed to expand the market for British and American authors. The book takes examples from the purchase and sale of popular fiction by Ouida, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ewing, and canonical authors such as George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Mark Twain. Consideration of the unique demands of the educational market complements the focus on fiction, as readers, arithmetic books, music, geography, science textbooks, and Greek and Latin classics became a staple for an increasing number of publishing houses wishing to spread the risk of novel publication.

Author : Ruari McLean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN : UOM:39015005674398

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Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather by Ruari McLean Pdf

Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.

Author : Ruari McLean
Publisher : London : Gordon Fraser
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Book covers
ISBN : UOM:39015001715658

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Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Paper by Ruari McLean Pdf

Author : Aileen Fyfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226276465

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Science and Salvation by Aileen Fyfe Pdf

Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.

Author : Katherine Haskins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351546287

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"The Art-Journal and Fine Art Publishing in Victorian England, 1850?880 " by Katherine Haskins Pdf

Focusing on an era that both inherited and irretrievably altered the form and the content of earlier art production, The Art-Journal and Fine Art Publishing in Victorian England, 1850-1880 argues that fine art practices and the audiences and markets for them were influenced by the media culture of art publishing and journalism in substantial and formative ways, perhaps more than at any other time in the history of English art. The study centers on forms of Victorian picture-making and the art knowledge systems defining them, and draws on the histories of art, literature, journalism, and publishing. The historical example employed in the book is that of the more than 800 steel-plate prints after paintings published in the London-based Art-Journal between 1850 and 1880. The cultural phenomenon of the Art Journal print is shown to be a key connector in mid-Victorian art appreciation by drawing out specific tropes of likeness. This study also examines the important links between paint and print; the aesthetic values and domestic aspirations of the Victorian middle class; and the inextricable intertwining of fine art and 'trade' publishing.

Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107005136

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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by Deirdre David Pdf

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

Author : Gaye Tuchman,Nina E. Fortin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415533249

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Edging Women Out by Gaye Tuchman,Nina E. Fortin Pdf

Before 1840 there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the 20th century, 'men of letters' acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most successful novelists were men. Here, Gaye Tuchman examines how men redefined this form of literary expression.

Author : Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821443804

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Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra Pdf

In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on “drawing-room books” as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book’s visual/verbal form mediated “high” and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed for domestic space and a female audience; its mode of publication marks a significant moment in the history of authorship, reading, and publishing. With rigorous attention to the gift book’s aesthetic and ideological features, Kooistra analyzes the contributions of poets, artists, engravers, publishers, and readers and shows how its material form moved poetry into popular culture. Drawing on archival and periodical research, she offers new readings of Eliza Cook, Adelaide Procter, and Jean Ingelow and shows the transatlantic reach of their verses. Boldly resituating Tennyson’s works within the gift-book economy he dominated, Kooistra demonstrates how the conditions of corporate authorship shaped the production and receptionof the laureate’s verses at the peak of his popularity. Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing changes the map of poetry’s place—in all its senses—in Victorian everyday life and consumer culture.

Author : Leslie Howsam
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802041264

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Kegan Paul, a Victorian Imprint by Leslie Howsam Pdf

Howsam combines biography and analytic bibliography in her study of the Kegan Paul imprint to reconstruct a biographical and business history of the firm.

Author : Rebecca Rodriguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578789906

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Comfort Inn Endings by Rebecca Rodriguez Pdf

After a few unsuccessful relationships, Rebecca gives love another shot and meets a guy she thought she could trust. With the love booming and all the right words, Devonte has Rebecca head over heels for him. After months of being in love with a narcissistic man, the tables turn and Rebecca's life hangs in the balance. What will happen to them? Will Rebecca find her way and leave or stay in a life-threatening relationship?

Author : Francis O'Gorman,Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199281923

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Victorian Literature and Finance by Francis O'Gorman,Oxford University Press Pdf

This book analyses relationships between writing and the financial structures of the 19th century. What emerges is a remarkable set of imaginative connections between literature and Victorian finance, including women and the culture of investment, the profits of a media age, and the uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital.

Author : David Finkelstein,Andrew Nash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003823629

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The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century by David Finkelstein,Andrew Nash Pdf

This volume documents how the nineteenth-century British publishing industry responded to and helped shape changes in readership and reading markets in the period. Focusing on broad social, economic and cultural changes, it traces the impact of improvements in transport and communication networks, which dramatically affected the production, distribution and retail of books and periodicals, and the implementation of the Education Acts of 1870 and 1871 which forced publishers to direct their attention to new markets and adopt cheaper publishing formats. The growth of circulating libraries, the revolution in serial and part publication, and the spread of railway bookstalls are among the many topics addressed in this volume which concludes with a section that documents the new pressures of censorship that arose as educational reforms provoked anxieties over the spread of cheap ‘pernicious’ literature.

Author : Peter den Hertog
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526772398

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Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews? by Peter den Hertog Pdf

This investigation into the Nazi leader’s mindset is “an inherently fascinating study . . . a work of meticulously presented and seminal scholarship”(Midwest Book Review). Adolf Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism is often attributed to external cultural and environmental factors. But as historian Peter den Hertog notes in this book, most of Hitler’s contemporaries experienced the same culture and environment and didn’t turn into rabid Jew-haters, let alone perpetrators of genocide. In this study, the author investigates what we do know about the roots of the German leader’s anti-Semitism. He also takes the significant step of mapping out what we do not know in detail, opening pathways to further research. Focusing not only on history but on psychology, forensic psychiatry, and related fields, he reveals how Hitler was a man with highly paranoid traits, and clarifies the causes behind this paranoia while explaining its connection to his anti-Semitism. The author also explores, and answers, whether the Führer gave one specific instruction ordering the elimination of Europe’s Jews, and, if so, when this took place. Peter den Hertog is able to provide an all-encompassing explanation for Hitler’s anti-Semitism by combining insights from many different disciplines—and makes clearer how Hitler’s own particular brand of anti-Semitism could lead the way to the Holocaust.

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 955 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317863328

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The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction by John Sutherland Pdf

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.

Author : Alexander Bubb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192636027

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Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf by Alexander Bubb Pdf

The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated. The popularity of the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which schoolchildren were given abridgements of the Ramayana to read, in which names like 'Kalidasa' and 'Firdusi' were carved on the façades of public libraries, and in which women's book clubs discussed Japanese poetry. But for the most part, such readers were not consulting the specialist publications of scholarly orientalists. What then were the translations that catalysed these intercultural encounters? Based on a unique methodology marrying translation theory with empirical techniques developed by historians of reading, this book shines light for the first time on the numerous amateur translators or 'popularizers', who were responsible for making these texts accessible and disseminating them to the Victorian general readership. Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers. It uses the working papers and correspondence of popularizers to demonstrate their techniques and motivations, while the responses of contemporary readers are traced through the pencil marginalia they left behind in dozens of original copies. In spite of their typically limited knowledge of source-languages, Asian Classics argues that popularizers produced versions more respectful of the complexity, cultural difference, and fundamental untranslatability of Asian texts than the professional orientalists whose work they were often adapting. The responses of their readers, likewise, frequently deviated from interpretive norms, and it is proposed that this combination of eccentric translators and unorthodox readers triggered 'flights of translation', whereby historical individuals can be seen to escape the hegemony of orientalist forms of knowledge.