Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 18801950

The short story was a commercial phenomenon which took off in the late nineteenth century and lasted through to the rise of television and film. Baldwin uses a wide variety of sources to show how economic factors helped to dictate how and what a wide variety of authors wrote.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Economics and the Flowering of the British Short Story; Chapter 2 The Business of Authorship; Chapter 3 How Much Money Does an Author Need?; Chapter 4 Publishing Conditions in England, 1880-1950; Chapter 5 Authors' Careers: The Development of the Short Story in Britain, 1880-1914; Chapter 6 Short Stories and the Magazines; Chapter 7 Magazines' Restraints on Art in the Service of Commerce; Chapter 8 Short Stories in Book Form; Chapter 9 Sales of Short Story Collections and Novels; Chapter 10 First Editions, Limited Editions and Manuscripts; Chapter 11 The British Short Story and Its Reviewers; Chapter 12 Vitality and Variety in the British Short Story, 1915-50; Chapter 13 Art and Commerce in the British Short Story;

About the author

Dean Baldwin

Product details

• Authors: Dean Baldwin, Baldwin Dean
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138661707
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66170-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The History of the Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form