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" Empires of print : "
Patrick Scott Belk.
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850379
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Belk, Patrick Scott
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Empires of print : : adventure fiction in the magazines, 1899-1919 /\ Patrick Scott Belk.
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Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY :: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,, 2017.
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xiii, 247 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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1315565765
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: 1472441141
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: 9781315565767
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: 9781472441140
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9781315565767
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index.
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Introduction. Print in Transition : Magazines, Adventure, and Threats of New Media, 1880-1920 -- Empires of Print : An Imperial History of Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Expansion -- Imperial Technologies : Adventure and the Threat of New Media in Conrad's Lord Jim (1899) -- Transatlantic Crossings : The Technological Scene of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay (1909) -- Spectacular Texts : Conan Doyle's Essays on Photography and The Lost World (1912) -- Deciphered Codes : John Buchan in All-Story Weekly (1915) and The Popular Magazine (1919) -- Conclusion. Lost in Transit : Sax Rohmer, Conan Doyle, and Baroness Orczy's Eldorado (1913) in Africa -- Appendix A. British and American Books, Magazines, and Newspapers : Titles by Year (1860-1922) -- Appendix B. Representative Authors' Payments for First UK & U.S. Serial Rights (1884-1938) -- Appendix C. Average Delivery Time of Mail Packet Steamers by Decade (1840-1920) -- Appendix D. Major International Copyright Legislation Affecting Authors (1880-1920) -- Appendix E. Commercial Statistics of the Principal Countries of the World (1904-06) -- Appendix F. American Pulp Magazine Circulations (1900-22) -- Appendix G. Advertising Ratios in Representative British and American Magazines (1919) -- Appendix H. List of Magazines, Newspapers, etc., Found Loose (Kenya Gazette, May 1913) -- Appendix I. Combined Monthly Totals from "List of Magazines, Newspapers, etc.," Kenya Gazette, 1900-22.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular fiction, particularly the adventure genre, developed in ways that directly correlate with authors' experiences, and shows that popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emerged as one way of marketing their literary works to expanding audiences of readers worldwide. Despite an over-determined print space altered by the rise of new kinds of consumers and transformations of accepted habits of reading, publishing, and writing, the changes in British and American publishing at the turn of the twentieth century inspired an exciting new period of literary invention and experimentation in the adventure genre, and the greater part of that invention and experimentation was happening in the magazines.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Books and reading-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century
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Books and reading-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Publishers and publishing-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century
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Publishers and publishing-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Serialized fiction-- Great Britain-- History and criticism
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Serialized fiction-- United States-- History and criticism
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18.05 English literature.
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Abenteuerliteratur
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American fiction.
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Books and reading.
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Englisch
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English fiction.
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Fortsetzungsroman
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Publishers and publishing.
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Serialized fiction.
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.087090912
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PN3448.S48B45 2017
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PS374.S446B45 2017
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