During the course of the nineteenth century, the British publishing industry was transformed as the commercial, technological and legal structures underpinning the production and distribution of books and periodicals changed rapidly. The period has long been viewed as having witnessed the birth of a mass reading public as educational reforms, revolutions in transport and communications, as well as the introduction of mechanised processes of production, increased the supply of printed matter and the demand for reading material. Books and periodicals became cheaper and the market for them increasingly international. New retail outlets emerged, and library provision of various kinds expanded. At the same time, changes in copyright legislation and the emerging professionalisation of authorship changed the way the publishing industry worked with the authors and other players in the book trade. This four-volume collection brings together contemporary source material that charts the nature, timing and impact of these changes, and explores some of the key contexts and debates of the period. Each volume will present a documentary account of changes in the publishing industry from four distinct perspectives: production, commercial and business structures, legal structures, and readers and markets. This title will be of great interest to students and scholars of history and literature.

• Sources that have not previously been published or brought together, and which are difficult to access outside of special collections or copyright libraries, has been included alongside other core material.

This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing structure of the publishing industry in the period and its intersections with other branches of the book trade. It charts the increasing separation of the functions of printing, publishing and bookselling in the production and distribution of books, and the emergence of new economic models of publishing. For most of the period the book trade operated on a shortage of capital, depending upon fragile networks of credit and debt which could lead, as in the financial crisis of 1826-7, to the collapse of many businesses. The volume documents how the structures of the industry impacted upon the pricing structure of books and periodicals and the slow emergence of a mass-market for print. Trade practices of discounting and underselling were a topic of intense debate throughout the period in both trade and general periodicals. The volume focuses on key moments such as the controversy over free trade in the 1840s and 1850s, the formation of trade associations in the 1890s, and the debates over price protection which led to the formation of the Net Book Agreement in 1900, successfully tested in the ‘Times Book War’ of 1906-8. The volume also illustrates the shifting geographies of the trade: the increasing dominance of London but the continued importance of printing and publishing in Scotland and Ireland (Edinburgh and Dublin in particular) and developments in provincial areas of Britain. Documents include material drawn from contemporary books; articles and correspondence in contemporary newspapers and periodicals such as the Times, the Westminster Review and Fraser’s Magazine; articles published in trade journals such as the Publishers’ Circular and the Bookseller; documents produced by trade organisations; and material from the W.H. Smith archive.

This volume brings together documents that illustrate the changing relations between authors and publishers in the period, and the impact of copyright reform and debates over intellectual property on markets and publishing practices. The enormous expansion in the scale and variety of the marketplace for print after 1815 provided new opportunities for authors and prompted debates over intellectual property and the working relations between authors and publishers. The volume documents the impact of these changes on the publishing industry and its markets, focusing on key moments such as the emergence of the professional literary agent in the late 1870s and the formation of the Incorporated Society of Authors in 1883. It documents in detail key source material related to copyright and intellectual property, which were major battle grounds affecting nineteenth-century textual circulation, author-publisher relations, financial sustainability, competitiveness in international markets and industrial relations. The British publishing industry’s attempts to control piracy and unrestricted circulation of their titles in the US and elsewhere found expression in a number of pressure campaigns, formal government commissions, legal acts, and contributions to public debate through journal articles, pamphlets, speeches and newspaper accounts. The volume illustrates key moments captured in contemporary documents including the Copyright Acts of 1814, 1842, 1844, 1886, 1906 and 1911, Parliamentary Royal Commission sessions from 1878 and 1899; articles and reports from contemporary newspaper and periodical sources; official publications of the Society of Authors; and extracts from contemporary books on authorship, including autobiographies.

This volume documents how the publishing industry responded to and helped to shape changes in readership and reading markets in the period, tracing the impact of broad social and cultural changes in, for example, transport and communication, and education and literacy. Improvements in transport and postal and communication networks dramatically affected the production, distribution and retail of books and periodicals, establishing new modes of acquisition and consumption of texts. The volume documents in particular the impact of railway expansion and the spread of railway bookstalls and increased demand for cheaper books. The expansion of spaces and outlets through which published texts could be circulated also occupied a great deal of commentary. The rise of the circulating library, the development of commercial and free public libraries, and the implementation of the Education Acts of 1870 and 1871, required publishers to direct attention to new markets and demands. Such demands created pressure to adopt new patterns of publishing formats, prices and genre categories: it sparked a revolution in serial and part publication, a growth of cheap series publishing at the end of the period, and shifts in the demand for key subject areas such as religion, educational textbooks, information publishing, and children’s books. New pressures of censorship also arose as educational reforms provoked anxieties over the spread of cheap ‘pernicious’ literature. The volume illustrates key moments in these developments through documentary material drawn from contemporary books, newspapers and periodicals; library and bookseller records; and government publications and reports.

William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.

This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African history-one often obscured or patronized as Afrikaner liberalism. It traces this current of thought from nineteenth-century disputes over Dutch liberal theology through Stellenbosch existentialism to the prison writings of Breyten Breytenbach, and examines related themes in the work of Olive Schreiner, M. K. Gandhi, and Richard Turner. At the core of this tradition is a defence of free speech in its classical sense, as a virtue necessary for a good society, rather than in its modern liberal sense as an individual right. Out of this defence of free speech, conducted in the face of charges of heresy, treason, and immorality, a range of philosophical conceptions developed-of the self constituted in dialogue with others, of freedom as transcendence of the given, and of a dialectical movement of consciousness as it is educated through debate and action. This study shows the Socratic commitment to "following the argument where it leads," sustained and developed in the storm and stress of a peculiar modernity.

William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.

This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African history-one often obscured or patronized as Afrikaner liberalism. It traces this current of thought from nineteenth-century disputes over Dutch liberal theology through Stellenbosch existentialism to the prison writings of Breyten Breytenbach, and examines related themes in the work of Olive Schreiner, M. K. Gandhi, and Richard Turner. At the core of this tradition is a defence of free speech in its classical sense, as a virtue necessary for a good society, rather than in its modern liberal sense as an individual right. Out of this defence of free speech, conducted in the face of charges of heresy, treason, and immorality, a range of philosophical conceptions developed-of the self constituted in dialogue with others, of freedom as transcendence of the given, and of a dialectical movement of consciousness as it is educated through debate and action. This study shows the Socratic commitment to "following the argument where it leads," sustained and developed in the storm and stress of a peculiar modernity.

J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was the most successful British playwright of the early twentieth century, and his novels were once thought equal to those of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. Although in recent years there has been a revival of interest in Barrie's writing, many critics still fail to include him in surveys of fin de siecle literature or drama. Perhaps Barrie's remarkable variety of output has prevented him from being taken to the centre of critical discussions in any one area of literary criticism or history. Is Barrie predominantly a novelist or a playwright? Is he Victorian, Decadent, Edwardian or Modernist? Gateway to the Modern is the very first collection of essays on Barrie which attempts to do justice to the extraordinary range of his literary achievement. What emerges is a significant writer, fully immersed in the literary and intellectual culture of his day.

This book tells stories of life in a ""failing"" school. These are insider stories of the daily lives of children and educators in an urban school during a time when accountability weighs heavy on both teachers and students. Most educators are in favor of accountability. The kind and amount of testing associated with the current accountability movement, however, influence teachers' and students' lives in a way not often apparent to parents and politicians.

This book tells stories of life in a ""failing"" school. These are insider stories of the daily lives of children and educators in an urban school during a time when accountability weighs heavy on both teachers and students. Most educators are in favor of accountability. The kind and amount of testing associated with the current accountability movement, however, influence teachers' and students' lives in a way not often apparent to parents and politicians.

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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range of perspectives in order to create a comprehensive guide, from growing professionalisation at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the impact of digital technologies at the end. Its multi-authored focus on the material book and its manufacture broadens to a study of the book's authorship and readership, and its production and dissemination via publishing and bookselling. It examines in detail key market sectors over the course of the period, and concludes with a series of essays concentrating on aspects of book history: the book in wartime; class, democracy and value; books and other media; intellectual property and copyright; and imperialism and post-imperialism.