This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly, however, it attempts to trace the ways in which recently-introduced marketing techniques, reconceived ideas of audience, and new paradigms in author-publisher relations affected American writers of the 1930s and the literature they produced. Using case studies of authors chosen from various points on the spectrum of so-called high-, middle-, and lowbrow literature, the author demonstrates that, contrary to popular critical opinion, this new publishing landscape--dominated by big-business practices and strict categorizations of audiences, writers, and works--did not ruin or corrupt literature but in fact enriched our literary heritage by providing authors with inspiration and opportunity that they may not otherwise have had.
| ISBN: | 9780415762472 |
| Publication date: | 11th September 2014 |
| Author: | Kim Becnel |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
| Genres: |
Publishing industry and journalism |
This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly, however, it attempts to trace the ways in which recently-introduced marketing techniques, reconceived ideas of audience, and new paradigms in author-publisher relations affected American writers of the 1930s and the literature they produced. Using case studies of authors chosen from various points on the spectrum of so-called high-, middle-, and lowbrow literature, the author demonstrates that, contrary to popular critical opinion, this new publishing landscape--dominated by big-business practices and strict categorizations of audiences, writers, and works--did not ruin or corrupt literature but in fact enriched our literary heritage by providing authors with inspiration and opportunity that they may not otherwise have had.
The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America features in the following genres: Publishing industry and journalism
The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America is available in Paperback
The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America was written by Kim Becnel and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America has 160 pages
Yes it is part of Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series
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