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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Finkelstein |
| ISBN: | 0271021799 9780271021799 |
| OCLC Number: | 469179955 |
| Notes: | Bibliogr. p. 185-189. |
| Description: | VIII-199 p. ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Setting the Scene 2. Finding Success: Blackwood's, 1860-1879 3. Africa Rewritten: The Case of John Hanning Speke 4. Reade Revised: A Woman Hater and the Women's Medical Movement 5. Shifting Ground: Blackwood's, 1880-1912 6. Creating House Identities: Nineteenth-Century Publishing Memoirs and the Annals of a Publishing House 7. "A Grocer's Business": William Blackwood IIIand the Literary Agents Conclusion Appendices 1-3: Introduction Appendix 1. Blackwood & Sons Publishing Statistics, 1860-1910 Appendix 2. Blackwood's Magazine Sales, 1856-1915 Appendix 3. Margaret Oliphant Sales, 1860-1897 Notes Bibliography Index |
| Series Title: | Penn State series in the history of the book |
| Responsibility: | David Finkelstein. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"The House of Blackwood is one of the best studies of a publishing house to be produced since book history was reinvented a couple of decades ago. Perceptively applying theory to archives, Finkelstein's study illuminates the publisher's relations to authors, and much more-it shows how successive generations of Blackwoods responded to familial, economic, trade, workshop, and political pressures, the changing demographics of readers, and the altered conditions of publishing in Edwardian Britain. It is a pleasure to read and a model for future work in the field."-Robert L. Patten, Rice University "The House of Blackwood offers as much meat for the nineteenth-century historian, the student of business history-even present-day publishing executives!-as it does for the literary critic."-Julie Dawson, ForeWord Reviews "[The book's] examination of balance-sheets, together with the close reading of correspondence and memoirs, makes an engaging as well as important contribution to our knowledge of the Victorian culture of the book."-Leslie Howsam, The Library "This monograph is a further important addition to [Penn State Press's] significant series on the history of the book."-William Baker, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America "I should finally mention that this is an exceptionally well documented study."-Alan Boehm, Libraries and Culture "The House of Blackwood is an engaging and extremely valuable piece of research that will benefit literary scholars and publishing historians for years to come."-Karen Carney, Sharp News "Elegantly designed and illustrated, beautifully written, and full of fresh material presented in a lively manner, The House of Blackwood is a notable addition to Victorian publishing history."-Solveig C. Robinson, Victorian Periodicals Review Read more...
