Australian books and authors in the American marketplace 1840s-1940s / David Carter and Roger Osborne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, David, author.

Osborne, Roger, author.

Series:

Sydney studies in Australian literature.

Sydney studies in Australian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Booksellers and bookselling--United States--History--20th century.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Publishers and publishing--Australia--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Australian literature--United States--19th century.

Australian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 366 pages, 10 numbered pages of plates) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Of Sydney, New South Wales : Sydney University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940sexplores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature's connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures.

Contents:

Intro

Half title page

Series title page

Full book title page

Contents

List of figures

List of plates

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Two-Sided Triangle

1: Antipodean Romance: Australian Fiction and the American Book Trade in the Nineteenth Century

2: International Reputations and Transatlantic Rights: Rosa Praed and Louis Becke

3: Crime, Sensation and the Modern Genre System: Australian Authors in the Popular Fiction Marketplace, 1890s-1920s

4: Renegotiating the American Connection: Australian Fiction 1900-1930s

Plates

5: Mystery and Romance: The Market for Light Fiction Between the Wars

6: Becoming Articulate: Henry Handel Richardson and Katharine Susannah Prichard

7: "Australia is very American": Australian Historical Fiction in America 1920s-1940s

8: "Australian moderns": Christina Stead and Patrick White in New York

9: Bestsellers, Modest Sellers and Commercial Failures: The Postwar Years

Epilogue: Completing the Triangle?

Works Cited

Index

About the authors

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-74332-580-0

1-74332-581-9

OCLC:

1022787265