Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900

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Main Details

Title Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Charles Johanningsmeier
SeriesCambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:298
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780521497107
ClassificationsDewey:071.3
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 8 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 13 November 1996
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. Stephen Crane, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain were among those who offered their early fiction to 'Syndicates', firms which subsequently sold the work to newspapers across America for simultaneous, first-time publication. This newly decentralised process profoundly affected not only the economics of publishing, but also the relationship between authors, texts and readers. In the first full-length study of this publishing phenomenon, Charles Johanningsmeier evaluates the unique site of interaction syndicates held between readers and texts.

Reviews

' ... a seminal study for newspaper, publishing and literary history.' Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin