The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume One

1. Introduction
John Spiers

2. Market Forces and Modernisation in the French Book Trade in the Last Century of the ‘Ancien Régime’ and in the Early Nineteenth Century: Some Reflections on the Emergence of the Publisher’s Series
Wallace Kirsop

3. The Paperback Revolution in France, 1850–1950
Isabelle Olivero

4. Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright
Gordon B. Neavill

5. ‘To Undertake Such Works as They Find to Be Wanted’: The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series
Simon Eliot

6. Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap’s Poetry and Life Series, 1911–1930
Patrick Buckridge

7. Excavating Original African American ‘Pulp Fiction’: W.W. Norton’s Old School Books
Cécile Cottenet

8. The Symbiotic Relationship of Thomas Nelson & Sons and John Buchan within the Publisher’s Series
Kate Macdonald

9. The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin’s Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries
Frederick Nesta

10. Sifting out ‘Rubbish’ in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties: Chatto & Windus and the Phoenix Library
Andrew Nash

11. Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press: A Modern Press for Modern Times
Michele K. Troy

12. ‘Sound Information and Innocent Amusement’: John Murray’s Books on the Move
Barbara Schaff

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory