Victorian Novelists and Publishers

by J. A. Sutherland

Overview

Introduction
Part One: The Novel Publishing World, 1830-1870
1. Novel Publishing 1830-1870
2. Mass Market and Big Business: Novel Publishing at Midcentury
3. Craft versus Trade: Novelists and Publishers
Part Two: Novelists, Novels and their Publishers, 1830-1870
4. Henry Esmond: The Shaping Power of Contract
5. Westward Ho!: ‘A Popularly Successful Book'
6. Trollope: Making the First Rank
7. Lever and Ainsworth: Missing the First Rank
8. Dickens as Publisher
9. Marketing Middlemarch
10. Hardy: Breaking into Fiction
Notes
Index

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472510259
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/08/2014
Series:	Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Sutherland is Reader in English at University College London. He previously lectured at Edinburgh University and has held visiting academic posts in the United States. As well as contributing to many academic jourbanals he has reviewed fiction and literary studies for the Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman and published articles on the booktrade in The New Review and New Society. His previous books are Thackeray at Work (1974) and Victorian Novelists and Publishers (1976) and he has edited novels boy Trollope and Thackeray for the Penguin English Library.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: The Novel Publishing World, 1830-1870
1. Novel Publishing 1830-1870
2. Mass Market and Big Business: Novel Publishing at Midcentury
3. Craft versus Trade: Novelists and Publishers
Part Two: Novelists, Novels and their Publishers, 1830-1870
4. Henry Esmond: The Shaping Power of Contract
5. Westward Ho!: ‘A Popularly Successful Book'
6. Trollope: Making the First Rank
7. Lever and Ainsworth: Missing the First Rank
8. Dickens as Publisher
9. Marketing Middlemarch
10. Hardy: Breaking into Fiction
Notes
Index