Empires of print : adventure fiction in the magazines, 1899-1919 /
At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scot...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Print in Transition : Magazines, Adventure, and Threats of New Media, 1880-1920
- Empires of Print : An Imperial History of Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Expansion
- Imperial Technologies : Adventure and the Threat of New Media in Conrad's Lord Jim (1899)
- Transatlantic Crossings : The Technological Scene of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay (1909)
- Spectacular Texts : Conan Doyle's Essays on Photography and The Lost World (1912)
- Deciphered Codes : John Buchan in All-Story Weekly (1915) and The Popular Magazine (1919)
- Conclusion. Lost in Transit : Sax Rohmer, Conan Doyle, and Baroness Orczy's Eldorado (1913) in Africa
- Appendix A. British and American Books, Magazines, and Newspapers : Titles by Year (1860-1922)
- Appendix B. Representative Authors' Payments for First UK & U.S. Serial Rights (1884-1938)
- Appendix C. Average Delivery Time of Mail Packet Steamers by Decade (1840-1920)
- Appendix D. Major International Copyright Legislation Affecting Authors (1880-1920)
- Appendix E. Commercial Statistics of the Principal Countries of the World (1904-06)
- Appendix F. American Pulp Magazine Circulations (1900-22)
- Appendix G. Advertising Ratios in Representative British and American Magazines (1919)
- Appendix H. List of Magazines, Newspapers, etc., Found Loose (Kenya Gazette, May 1913)
- Appendix I. Combined Monthly Totals from "List of Magazines, Newspapers, etc.," Kenya Gazette, 1900-22
- note: 1 Empires of Print: An Imperial History of Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Expansion
- pt. l "The History of Text Involves the History of its Dissemination"
- Imperial Press Conference of 1909
- Periodical Expansion, Publishing Networks
- Periodical Expansion and the Media Empire
- pt. II Popular Adventure Fiction and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Form
- "My Empire is of the Imagination"
- 2. Imperial Technologies: Adventure and the Threat of New Media in Conrad's Lord Jim (1899)
- Conrad as a Blackwood's Author
- Blackwood's at the Turn of the Century
- Serializing Lord Jim's Patusan Section
- 3. Transatlantic Crossings: The Technological Scene of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay (1909)
- Materiality of Texts and Simultaneous Transatlantic Serialization
- Collating and Comparing Two "First" Appearances: Title-Level
- Collating and Comparing Two "First" Appearances: Issue and Constituent-Level
- Conclusion
- 4. Spectacular Texts: Conan Doyle's Essays on Photography and The Lost World (1912)
- pt. I Essays on Photography
- pt. II Picturing the Lost World
- 5. Deciphered Codes: John Buchan in All-Story Weekly (1915) and The Popular Magazine (1919)
- Pulp Buchan
- British Institutions, American Pulps
- Master of Pace: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
- Breaking the Pulp Code: Mr. Standfast (1919)
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Lost in Transit: Sax Rohmer, Conan Doyle, and Baroness Orczy's Eldorado (1913) in Africa.