American Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields

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Cambridge University Press, 1995 - Broj stranica: 268
This is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain, addressed through examination of the unusually rich archives of a unique publishing firm. Boston-based Ticknor and Fields, one of the pre-eminent literary publishers of its time, enjoyed close links with Britain, and also developed new production, distribution, and marketing skills as the settlement of North America pushed ever further west. Michael Winship has studied the firm's business records and publications in detail: he reveals what Ticknor and Fields published, its costs of production, the ways it marketed and distributed its books, and the profits it made. Winship goes on to explore the implications of the firm's work for the book trade in general, and to show how an investigation of Ticknor and Fields enriches our understanding of the literary and cultural history of Britain and North America.
 

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Stranica 3 - Publishing is relevant to literary history only in so far as it can be shown to be, ultimately, a shaping influence on literature.
Stranica 233 - Distribution," in Needs and Opportunities in the History of the Book: America, 1639-1876, ed. David D. Hall and John B. Hench (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1987), 103-86. 4. Michael Hackenherg, "The Subscription Publishing Network in Nineteenth-Century America," in Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19thCentury America, ed.

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