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Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade - American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency (Paperback)
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Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade - American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital
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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' negotiations which allowed texts, and ideas, to cross
borders. While providing comparative insights into the history of
publishing in France and in the United States in the immediate
aftermath of the war, this book aims at foregrounding the role of
the book agent, an all-too often neglected intermediary in the
field of book history. Grounded in archival work conducted both in
France and the United States, this study is based on previously
unexamined correspondence. Considering the concept of mediation as
central in the field of print culture, this book addresses the
dearth of scholarship on literary agents on both sides of the
Atlantic, and intersects with the current scholarship on
transatlantic, internationalm and transnational cultural and trade
networks, as evidenced by the recently emerged field of sociology
of translation in Europe.
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