1st Edition
The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America
By Kim Becnel
Copyright 2008
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly, however, it attempts to trace the ways in which recently-introduced marketing techniques, reconceived... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Book Business in the 1920s and 30s; Chapter 2 Djuna Barnes; Chapter 3 Lloyd Douglas; Chapter 4 Pearl Buck’s other Gods; Chapter 5 William Faulkner; Conclusion;
Biography
Kim Becnel
