The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) [Hardcover]

David Finkelstein (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0271021799 | ISBN-13: 978-0271021799 | Publication Date: April 1, 2002

The Scottish publishing house of William Blackwoood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in 19th- and early 20th-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors - including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among others - in book form and in its monthly "Blackwood's Magazine". In this title, David Finkelstein exposes the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse. He provides a general history of the firm, attending to family dynamics over several generations, their moulding of a particular political and national culture, the shaping of a Blackwood audience, and the multiple causes for the firm's decline in the decades before World War I.

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Review

"This book offers as much meat for nineteenth-century historians, the students of business history,as it does for literary critics." --ForeWord, July 2002

About the Author

David Finkelstein is Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh. He is editor of An Index to Blackwood’s Magazine, 1901–1980 (1995) and co-editor of four recent books, including The Book History Reader (2001) and Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities (2000). He has spent the last few years cataloging the Blackwood papers for the National Library of Scotland, which has enabled him to exploit business documents ignored by or unknown to previous researchers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt) (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0271021799
• ISBN-13: 978-0271021799
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,596,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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