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Empires of Print: Adventure Fiction in the Magazines, 1899-1919 book cover

1st Edition

Empires of Print Adventure Fiction in the Magazines, 1899-1919

By Patrick Scott Belk Copyright 2017
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

CONTENTS



List of Figures and Tables



Acknowledgements



List of Abbreviations





Introduction: Print in Transition: Magazines, Adventure, and Threats of New Media, 1880-1920



1: Empires of Print: An Imperial History of Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Expansion



Part I: "The History of Text Involves the History of its Dissemination"



The Imperial Press Conference of 1909



Periodical Expansion, Publishing Networks



Periodical Expansion and the Media Empire



Part II: Popular Adventure Fiction and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Form



"My Empire is of the Imagination"



2: Imperial Technologies: Adventure and the Threat of New Media in Conrad’s Lord Jim (1899)



Conrad as a Blackwood’s Author



Blackwood’s at the Turn of the Century



Serializing Lord Jim’s Patusan Section



3: Transatlantic Crossings: The Technological Scene of H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909)



The Materiality of Texts and Simultaneous Transatlantic Serialization



Collating and Comparing Two "First" Appearances: Title-Level



Collating and Comparing Two "First" Appearances: Issue and Constituent-Level



Conclusion



4: Spectacular Texts: Conan Doyle’s Essays on Photography and The Lost World (1912)



Part I: Essays on Photography



Part II: Picturing the Lost World



5: Deciphered Codes: John Buchan in All-Story Weekly (1915) and The Popular Magazine (1919)



The Pulp Buchan



British Institutions, American Pulps



A Master of Pace: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)



Breaking the Pulp Code: Mr. Standfast (1919)



Conclusion



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 Ye

Biography

Patrick Scott Belk is Assistant Professor of English in the Multimedia and Digital Culture program at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, USA, principal investigator for The Pulp Magazines Project, and webmaster for the Joseph Conrad Society UK.

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