Robert Seymour s Sketches by Seymour was one of the nineteenth century s most enduring and widely reprinted books. Each new edition added fresh layers of text, textual annotation, and paratextual elements, with the result that Sketches offers an exemplary account of the dynamics of Victorian publishing. In the first book-length study of Seymour s work, Brian Maidment sheds light on the relationship between texts and illustrations in the late Regency and Victorian eras and the ways in which comic and satirical graphic images were increasingly assimilated into complex layers of textuality....
Robert Seymour s Sketches by Seymour was one of the nineteenth century s most enduring and widely reprinted books. Each new edition added fresh layers...
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 1955, exploring the fine mechanisms of agents' negotiations which allowed texts, and ideas, to cross borders. While providing comparative insights into the history of publishing in France and in the United States in the immediate aftermath of the...
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 t...
