1st Edition
Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency
By Cécile Cottenet
Copyright 2017
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light on the material conditions of the circulation of texts across the Atlantic between 1944 and 1955, exploring the fine mechanisms of agents’... Read more
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Mediators in the pre-war transatlantic market
Chapter 2 – New beginnings: 1944-1946
Chapter 3 – New markets for the taking: 1946-1955
Chapter 4 – Cultural transfers and transatlantic negotiations
Chapter 5 – Bridging the divide: frictions and business culture
Conclusion
List of references
Biography
Cécile Cottenet is Associate Professor in American Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, France.
