Gå direkte til innholdet
Til startsiden
Søk etter din neste leseopplevelse
The House of Blackwood
Spar

The House of Blackwood

The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors—including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among many others—in book form and in its monthly Blackwood’s Magazine. In The House of Blackwood, David Finkelstein exposes for the first time the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse.

Finkelstein begins with a general history of the Blackwood firm from 1804 to 1920, attending to family dynamics over several generations, to their molding of a particular political and national culture, to the shaping of a Blackwood’s audience, and to the multiple causes for the firm’s decline in the decades before World War I. He then uses six case studies of authors—Conrad, Oliphant, John Hanning Speke, George Tompkyns Chesney, Charles Reade, and E. M. Forster—and their relationships with the publishing house. He mines the voluminous correspondence of the firm with its authors and, eventually, with the authors’ agents. The value of the archive Finkelstein studies is its completeness, the depth of the ledger material (particularly interesting given that the Blackwoods did much of their own printing), and the extraordinary longevity of the firm. A key value of Finkelstein’s account is his attention to the author/publisher/reader circuit that Robert Darnton emphasizes as the central focus of book history.

Undertittel
Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era
ISBN
9780271021799
Språk
Engelsk
Vekt
567 gram
Utgitt
1.3.2002
Antall sider
208

Mer om Adlibris

Om Adlibris

Vi er Nordens største nettbokhandel, og tilbyr over 13 millioner boktitler og det meste av det beste innen spill, leker, hobby og garn. Vår misjon er å være en moderne bokhandel for alle bokelskere: et innbydende sted for lesing, læring og skaping. Det er hva som driver oss, hver dag. Adlibris er en del av Bonnier Group.

  • Alltid lave priser

  • Fri frakt over 299,-

  • Nordens største nettbokhandel

Meld deg på nyhetsbrev

Motta våre beste boktips, nyheter og gode tilbud. Registrer deg nå, og få 15% rabatt på det første kjøpet ditt. Tilbudet gjelder kun nye abonnenter og privatkunder. Rabatten gjelder ikke norske bøker utgitt 2024, fag- og studielitteratur, digitale bøker og gavekort.