Kegan Paul

A Victorian Imprint
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7103-0605-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 537 g

This book is the history of a publisher's imprint and tells two connected stories: one about the personalities of a group of London publishers and the impression their characters made on the people who knew them: the other about a remarkable collection of books whose title pages bore those publishers' names over the course of four decades in the Victorian age. It is both a case study in nineteenth and early twentieth-century publishing and a contribution to the method and theory of the history of the book. The intention is to demonstrate how that history, sometimes characterized as the study of authorship, reading and publishing, can benefit from a focus on the publishers whose purpose it was to bring together the demands ·of readers with the preoccupations of authors. Charles Kegan Paul is only the best-remembered' of the publishers whose lives and work are chronicled in the pages that follow.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howsam, Leslie

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1: Henry S. King: businessman of letters Chapter 2: Charles Kegan Paul, pastor to publisher Chapter 3: Kegan Paul, Trench - the partnership with a reputation for serious and beautiful books, 1877-1888 Chapter 4: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tribner & Co. Ltd.: a financial crisis and a revolution in management, 1889-1911 Chapter 5: The Kegan Paul legacy: the making, consolidation and survival of a reputation for serious books Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Leslie Howsam Department of History, University of Windsor