Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. Stephen Crane, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain were among those who offered their early fiction to 'Syndicates', firms which subsequently sold the work to newspapers across America for simultaneous, first-time publication. This newly decentralised process profoundly affected not only the economics of publishing, but also the relationship between authors, texts and readers. In the first full-length study of this publishing phenomenon, Charles Johanningsmeier evaluates the unique site of interaction syndicates held between readers and texts.
| ISBN: | 9780521520188 |
| Publication date: | 4th July 2002 |
| Author: | Charles State University of New York Johanningsmeier |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 300 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Media, entertainment, information and communication industries |