Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Morton N. Cohen
Edited by Anita Gandolfo
SeriesCambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:396
Dimensions(mm): Height 226,Width 153
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
History of specific subjects
ISBN/Barcode 9780521044714
ClassificationsDewey:828.809
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 3 December 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This volume contains almost all the letters that Charles Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) wrote to his publisher during a professional relationship that spanned the last thirty-five years of the Victorian era, a time when the reading public expanded a hundredfold, when the techniques of mass book production were being shaped, and when laws governing copyright and bookselling were first forged in the English-speaking world. Dodgson's correspondence touched critically on all these issues, and is a fascinating record of the contemporary evolution of publishing as well as of the production and distribution of his own immensely popular children's books and other works. At the same time it charts the growth of the House of Macmillan from modest beginnings to its status as a leading publisher. Professor Cohen and Professor Gandolfo have provided a useful introduction and explanatory notes to the letters.