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At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in
Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and
reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and
periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction
published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors
such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to
explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets
and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular
fiction, particularly the adventure genre, developed in ways that
directly correlate with authors' experiences, and shows that
popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
emerged as one way of marketing their literary works to expanding
audiences of readers worldwide. Despite an over-determined print
space altered by the rise of new kinds of consumers and
transformations of accepted habits of reading, publishing, and
writing, the changes in British and American publishing at the turn
of the twentieth century inspired an exciting new period of
literary invention and experimentation in the adventure genre, and
the greater part of that invention and experimentation was
happening in the magazines.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in
Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and
reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and
periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction
published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors
such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to
explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets
and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular
fiction, particularly the adventure genre, developed in ways that
directly correlate with authors' experiences, and shows that
popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
emerged as one way of marketing their literary works to expanding
audiences of readers worldwide. Despite an over-determined print
space altered by the rise of new kinds of consumers and
transformations of accepted habits of reading, publishing, and
writing, the changes in British and American publishing at the turn
of the twentieth century inspired an exciting new period of
literary invention and experimentation in the adventure genre, and
the greater part of that invention and experimentation was
happening in the magazines.
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Treasure Island (Paperback)
Robert Louis Stevenson; Introduction by Patrick Scott
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R110
R86
Discovery Miles 860
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Ships in 8 - 13 working days
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Drawing on extensive scholarship and the poet's own inimitable
letters, this edition offers a wealth of information on Burns's
life, the hardships of his early days, his political beliefs, his
hatred of injustice, and his fate as a writer too often
sentimentalized by biographers and critics. Through his poetry, and
as if for the first time, we see Burns as a radical figure in a
British as well as a Scottish context, the peer of Blake,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Byron in the revolutionary and
repressive world of the 1790s. Containing recently attributed and
never-before-published poems demonstrating that the poet's
political sympathies were more radical than he could safely put his
name to in public, The Canongate Burns also includes the sexually
scandalous verses known as "The Merry Muses, " originally
circulated only in handwritten copies. This major and definitive
edition offers vitally fresh insights into the irreverent spirit
and the democratic convictions of Scotland's greatest poet. "A
magnificent and definitive work of scholarship." -- Colm Toibin,
The Independent "The Canongate Burns is a very fine edition, and
the long introduction ... is alone worth the cover price." --
Andrew O'Hagan, The Scotsman "This scholarly and comprehensive
edition of his poems puts those much-loved fragments of wit and
whimsy in their full context." -- The Sunday Telegraph
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Big Beasts (Paperback)
Patrick Scott
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R556
R466
Discovery Miles 4 660
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