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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Commercial Publishing"”.
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Cult of laughter: Emotional refuge, commercial publishing, and humor culture in late Ming China (1573-1644)
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Commercial publishing and the rise of Shishang local culture: the publishing of the Huang Ming shiliu mingjia xiaopin in Late Ming China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Selling Out: The American Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel
… reputation through both their success in commercial publishing and their resistance to it. I do not so much refute the difference between elite and mass culture, but instead show how even in their fictionality, those very categories inform the very structure of how we understand the …
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Selling out: The American literary marketplace and the Modernist novel
… literary reputations through their success in commercial publishing, and how later critics and scholars read, interpreted, and re-inscribed those attempts. Specifically, I interrogate the underpinnings of a narrative of modernist production based upon the essential differences between modernism …
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Balancing politics and publishing: Victor Gollancz and the publishing revolution of the 1930s
This thesis is a study of contradictions. In publishing terms, the 1930s was a decade of both consolidation and conservatism and of revolution and progress. It was a period of commercial growth, but also ideological evangelism, thereby making one of the central questions of the period: how do you …
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Prophets and profits : the financing of Wesleyan Methodism, c.1740-1800
… some 100 preachers, and occupied 100 chapels; a commercial publishing operation produced 60,000 books and pamphlets a year, distributed by the preachers; and the Connexion ran a boarding school and various local welfare activities. As its chapel debts became unsustainable, the leadership launched …
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Managing Nature in the Age of Enlightenment: The Practice of Natural History in Britain, 1760-1820
… that do not conform to the more general commercial publishing models often used by historians to characterise this period. The final chapter looks outwards once more, assessing the divergent strategies for distributing natural history publications. Books were designed to be used across a …
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Strategies of Adaptation: Constructing <i>Gōkan</i> in Late-Edo Japan
… construction—and reconstruction—of stories in commercial publishing was adaptation. This dissertation investigates the late-Edo system of literary production and consumption, and interrogates the mentalities behind it, by looking through the prism of the <i>gōkan</i>: a type of illustrated, …