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Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
1 651 kr
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Tracing the impact of the emergence of silent film on the culture industry in Britain in the early 20th century, this book reveals how cinema came to redefine contemporary authorship and publishing at the time. Using hitherto unexplored archival material and periodicals, it provides an author’s-eye view of these changes to literary culture as novelists, journalists and essayists found themselves writing for readers whose expectations had been transformed by their experiences of cinema. Examining the debates that raged at the time, including whether film would supplant print media, the book demonstrates how it did in fact devour and regurgitate them all to propagate a new, globalized culture industry by canalizing American popular culture directly to British audiences.Structured around a detailed exploration of the Society of Authors as an organization, the book also studies the individual careers of those writers associated with it including Walter Besant, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull and W. Somerset Maugham. Shedding light on the subsequent evolutions of literary forms such as the short story, how publishers and booksellers adapted to an Americanized marketplace, and how authors joined the fight for screenwriters to be ‘credited’ on screen, British Authorship in the Age of Silent Cinema lays bare the changes that befell the business of writing for a living in an age of unprecedented turmoil and national decline.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 708 kr
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The first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes including a detailed introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus and explanatory notesFirst new annotated edition for twenty-five yearsDetailed notes explore the historical and biographical references within each storyDefinitive textual apparatus collating the original magazine stories, the first book edition and Conan Doyle's author's edition of 1903Ideal for students and scholars interested in Arthur Conan Doyle, detective fiction, popular fiction, empire fiction, late-Victorian magazine culture and British authorshipThis exciting volume is the first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Includes the only current textual apparatus collated from different iterations of the stories along with a detailed introduction and an essay on the text based on contemporary scholarship.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 324 kr
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A literary history of Arthur Conan Doyle’s work with the Strand Magazine in the twentieth centuryYou know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically ‘Victorian’ author of the Sherlock Holmes stories which, on the lavishly-illustrated pages of the Strand Magazine, captivated and defined the late nineteenth-century marketplace for popular fiction and magazine publishing. This book tells the story of that relationship and the aftermath its enormous success as author and publication sought to shepherd their determinedly Victorian audience through the problems and crises of the early twentieth century. Here you can discover the Conan Doyle who used his public platform to fight for divorce reform, for the rights of colonised peoples, for State welfare programmes, for the abolition of blood sports and who, even in his last years, foresaw the coming of the Second World War, the Cold War and the age of weapons of mass destruction. The twentieth-century Conan Doyle was not a man with his eyes fixed upon the past but determinedly responding to a changing world with as much vigour and commitment as any modernist writer.Key FeaturesOriginal approach to Conan Doyle as a 'popular modernist’Analyses many forgotten and neglected novels, short stories, letters, pamphlets and non-fiction pieces, many of which have gone entirely unremarked within existing criticismProvides new periodical context by using forgotten material from the Strand to situate the work of Conan Doyle (and other popular writers from the period) within their historical moment Draws on original research into the artistic and business history of the Strand magazine, its writers and its employees