The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century: Volume IV: Publishers, Markets, Readers
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- Synopsis
- This volume documents how the nineteenth-century British publishing industry responded to and helped shape changes in readership and reading markets in the period. Focusing on broad social, economic and cultural changes, it traces the impact of improvements in transport and communication networks, which dramatically affected the production, distribution and retail of books and periodicals, and the implementation of the Education Acts of 1870 and 1871 which forced publishers to direct their attention to new markets and adopt cheaper publishing formats. The growth of circulating libraries, the revolution in serial and part publication, and the spread of railway bookstalls are among the many topics addressed in this volume which concludes with a section that documents the new pressures of censorship that arose as educational reforms provoked anxieties over the spread of cheap ‘pernicious’ literature.
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 444 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781003823629
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780367568467, 9781003823575, 9781003099635
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 03/13/24
- Copyrighted By:
- selection and editorial matter, David Finkelstein and Andrew Nash
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- David Finkelstein
- Edited by:
- Andrew Nash