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The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume 2

Nationalisms and the National Canon

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Editors:
  1. John Spiers

    1. Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
      School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, University of Glamorgan, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction. Wondering about ‘the Causes of Causes’: The Publisher’s Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings

    • John Spiers
    Pages 1-47

  3. The American Publisher’s Series Goes to War, 1942–1946

    • John B. Hench
    Pages 48-61

  4. The Foreign Series of Herder Verlag by 1900: International Catholic Literature

    • Álvaro Ceballos Viro
    Pages 62-71

  5. Adamantios Korais’s ‘The Greek Library’ (1805–1827): An Ingenious Publisher and the Making of a Nation

    • Nassia Yakovaki
    Pages 72-90

  6. Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library

    • Alison Rukavina
    Pages 91-104

  7. Women’s Series — by Women, for Women?

    • Lisa Kuitert
    Pages 105-115

  8. Leonard Bast’s Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition

    • Robert Fraser
    Pages 116-133

  9. Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan’s Colonial Library and Author Contracts

    • Shafquat Towheed
    Pages 134-151

  10. Household Words: An Account of the ‘Bengal Family Library’

    • Abhijit Gupta
    Pages 152-165

  11. Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent’s Everyman’s Library

    • Terry I. Seymour
    Pages 166-172

  12. ‘The Green and the Gold’: Series Publishing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

    • Elizabeth Tilley
    Pages 173-183

  13. One Series after Another: The Macmillan Company of Canada

    • Ruth Panofsky
    Pages 184-198

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 199-220
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About this book

This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.

Reviews

'An invaluable and engrossing re-evaluation of the Publishers Series, providing stimulating international comparisons and a lasting and important contribution to modern social and cultural history'

- James Raven, Professor in Modern History, University of Essex, UK

'The phenomenon of the publisher's series - so central to 18th and 19th-century publishing and reading practices - has never before been considered so fully. In the sheer breadth of the new material they encompass, enabling comparisons across time and space, these volumes will prove invaluable to students and scholars alike.'

- Mary Hammond, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Southampton, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

    John Spiers

  • School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, University of Glamorgan, UK

    John Spiers

About the editor

ROBERT FRASER Professor of English, Open University, UK JOHN B. HENCH independent scholar, USA ABHIJIT GUPTA Reader in English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India LISA KUITERT Professor in Book History and Manuscript Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands RUTH PANOFSKY Associate Professor English, Ryerson University, Canada ALISON RUKAVINA Instructor in Department of Film and English Studies, University of Alberta, Canada TERRY I. SEYMOUR independent scholar, USA JOHN SPIERS Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, UK ELIZABETH TILLEY National University of Ireland, Galway, Eire SHAFQUAT TOWHEED Lecturer in Literature, Open University, UK ALVARO CEBALLOS VIRO independent scholar, Germany NASSIA YAKOVAKI Assistant Professor on Early Modern European History, University of Thessally, Greece

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume 2

  • Book Subtitle: Nationalisms and the National Canon

  • Editors: John Spiers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299399

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28403-6Published: 18 February 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32922-9Published: 01 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29939-9Published: 18 February 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 220

  • Topics: History of the Book, Literary History, Printing and Publishing

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