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Placing papers : the American literary archives market / Amy Hildreth Chen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Amy, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archives--Administration--United States--History.
- Archives.
- Archives--Acquisitions--United States--History.
- Libraries--Special collections--American literature.
- Libraries.
- Authors, American--Archives.
- Authors, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years.Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Outside the Literary Archives Market
- Chapter 1. Inside the Literary Archives Market
- Chapter 2. Brand: Authors and Families
- Chapter 3. Profit: Agents and Dealers
- Chapter 4. Competition: Directors and Curators
- Chapter 5. Provenance: Archivists and Digital Archivists
- Chapter 6. Access: Scholars and the Public
- Conclusion: The Matthew Effect
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-730-7
- OCLC:
- 1157286487
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