Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880-1950

ISBN-13: 9781848932289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 240 str.

Dean Baldwin

Opis

The short story was a commercial phenomenon which took off in the late nineteenth century and lasted through to the rise of television and film. Using a wide variety of sources, Baldwin shows how economic factors helped to dictate what authors wrote and the way they wrote it. These conditions actually helped to disseminate the fiction of nearly all the major and minor writers of the period, from Hardy and Conrad to H E Bates and V S Pritchett. He argues that contrary to Modernists' claims that financial demands of middlebrow magazines prevented the genre from developing, they actually helped to improve authors' writing, particularly the work of Henry James and D H Lawrence.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Economics and the Flowering of the British Short Story; Chapter 2 The Business of Authorship; Chapter 3 How Much Money Does an Author Need?; Chapter 4 Publishing Conditions in England, 1880-1950; Chapter 5 Authors' Careers: The Development of the Short Story in Britain, 1880-1914; Chapter 6 Short Stories and the Magazines; Chapter 7 Magazines' Restraints on Art in the Service of Commerce; Chapter 8 Short Stories in Book Form; Chapter 9 Sales of Short Story Collections and Novels; Chapter 10 First Editions, Limited Editions and Manuscripts; Chapter 11 The British Short Story and Its Reviewers; Chapter 12 Vitality and Variety in the British Short Story, 1915-50; Chapter 13 Art and Commerce in the British Short Story;

O autorze

Dean Baldwin