Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade: American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency

ISBN-13: 9780367878757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Cecile Cottenet

Opis

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

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Mediators in the pre-war transatlantic market

Chapter 2 – New beginnings: 1944-1946

Chapter 3 – New markets for the taking: 1946-1955

Chapter 4 – Cultural transfers and transatlantic negotiations

Chapter 5 – Bridging the divide: frictions and business culture

Conclusion

List of references

O autorze

Cécile Cottenet is Associate Professor in American Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, France.