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

Paperback / softback

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:Paperback / softback
Pages:300
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780521520188
ClassificationsDewey:071.3
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 8 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 4 July 2002
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. Henry James, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain were among those who offered their early fiction to "Syndicates", firms that subsequently sold the work to newspapers across America for simultaneous, first-time publication. Charles Johanningsmeier shows how the economic practicalities of the syndicate system governed the consumption and interpretation of various literary texts. His study revises the conception of traditional literary history by examining the ordinary reader's response to some of the major writers of the nineteenth century.

Reviews

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