Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace - The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900

Zusammenfassung This is the first full-length study of the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing writers such as Henry James! Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain. Charles Johanningsmeier shows how the economic practicalities of the syndicate system governed the consumption and interpretation of various literary texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Newspaper syndicates of the late nineteenth century: overlooked forces in the American literary marketplace; 1. Preparing the way for the syndicates: a revolution in American fiction production, distribution, and readership, 1860-1900; 2. The pioneers: readyprint, plate service, and early galley-proof syndicates; 3. The heyday of American fiction syndication: Irvin Bacheller, S. S. McClure and other independent syndicators; 4. What literary syndicates represented to authors: saviours, doctors, or something in between?; 5. What price must authors pay? The negotiations between galley-proof syndicates and authors; 6. Pleasing the customers: the balance of power between syndicates and newspaper editors; 7. Readers' experiences with syndicated fiction; 8. The decline of the literary syndicates; Notes; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Charles Johanningsmeier, Charles Alan Johanningsmeier
• Assisted by: Terry Belanger (Editor), David Mckitterick (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521520188
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52018-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Publishin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism