Literary Dollars and Social Sense - A People''s History of the Mass Market Book

Zusatztext 'Overall! this is a significant! highly readable! and exhaustively researched study of a particularly dynamic period in the history of American authorship.' - The Journal of American History Informationen zum Autor Ronald J. Zboray is Associate Professor of Communication and of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Among his books are A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public (Oxford). Mary Saracino Zboray is an independent scholar; she is coauthor, with Ron Zboray, of A Handbook for the Study of Book History in the United States (Library of Congress). Zusammenfassung Literary Dollars & Social Sense shows common Americans apprehending the newly industrialized literary marketplace through their reading and gossiping, addressing it through their writing and editing, and serving it through their vending and distributing. Using diaries and letters, the Zborays uncover a neglected, yet pivotal moment in the history of modern mass-market publishing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Social Authors and Disseminators in the Age of the Mass Market I. In and Out of Print II. Textual Appearances III. From the Outside Looking In VI. Inside and Outside the Literary Marketplace

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• Authors: Mary Saracino Zboray, Ronald J. Zboray, Ronald J. Zboray Zboray, Zboray Mary Saracino, Zboray Ronald J.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2005
• EAN: 9780415972482
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97248-2
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism