German Exile Literature in America, 1933-1950: A History of the Free German Press and Book Trade. Robert E. Cazden

AbstractThis article investigates the evolution of print culture and commerce in Tehran during the first half of the 20th century. The first section examines technological changes that facilitated the commercialization of texts and then details the history of early print entrepreneurs in the Tehran bazaar. The second section examines the expansion of the book trade between the 1920s and 1940s, tracing the emergence of modern bookstores in a rapidly changing Tehran. I argue that patterns of change in print commerce between 1900 and 1950 contributed to the emergence of mass culture by midcentury. This new mass culture involved the social and political empowerment of a diversity of new reading publics in the city, and enabled the emergence of new forms of popular politics.

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Branding or Excluding?

Branding Books Across the Ages ◽

10.5117/9789463723916_ch06 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rob van de Schoor

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Book Trade ◽

Cultural Value ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Branding Strategies ◽

Long Time ◽

History Of ◽

Heuristic Methodology

Various aspects of branding can be recognized in the Dutch nineteenthcentury literary book trade, even though for a long time publishers and booksellers shied away from the explicit commercialization of what was considered to be merchandize of superior cultural value. A search for examples of branding reveals that branding studies seem to lack their own heuristic methodology: what can be described as branding is often a relabelling of the findings of ‘old school’ literary studies. Moreover, the history of important nineteenth-century printing houses has yet to be written. Research into branding strategies therefore might be somewhat premature, although the branding concept might be useful for book historians in describing the relations between publisher (printer), author, and reader.

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The Watson Family, the Association for the Discountenancing of Vice and the Irish Cheap Repository Tracts*

The Library ◽

10.1093/library/21.3.343 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 343-384

Author(s):

David Stoker

Keyword(s):

Family Business ◽

Book Trade ◽

History Of ◽

Economic Depression

Abstract Although the history of Hannah More’s Cheap Repository Tracts in England and America is well known, little has been written about the 270 or more editions published in Ireland 1795-c. 1830. They were first published by William Watson, a Dublin bookseller who, in 1792, had founded The Association for the Discountenancing of Vice (ADV). This article describes the founding and growth of the Association and the involvement of Watson and his son in the publishing of the tracts during the late 1790s. It also describes the role of the Watson family, the ADV and the Cheap Repository tracts during the Anglican Evangelical Crusade (1801–1830) after the 1798 rebellion in Ireland. Whilst many members of the Dublin book trade suffered from a severe economic depression after 1801, the Watson family continued to prosper, thanks to the printing and publishing work undertaken on behalf of the ADV. The Watson family business closed in 1832, but the ADV has lasted to the present day operating under a different name.

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English Books and Readers, 1603 to 1640. Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reigns of James I and Charles I

The Modern Language Review ◽

10.2307/3723007 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 66 (4) ◽

pp. 862

Author(s):

Paul Morgan ◽

H. S. Bennett

Keyword(s):

Book Trade ◽

History Of The Book ◽

James I ◽

Charles I ◽

History Of

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Biblical Criticism and Censorship in Ancien Régime France: the Case of Richard Simon

Harvard Theological Review ◽

10.1017/s0017816000027425 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 78 (1-2) ◽

pp. 149-177 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Patrick J. Lambe

Keyword(s):

Church And State ◽

Political History ◽

Book Trade ◽

Point Of View ◽

Ancien Regime ◽

Louis Xiv ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Ancien Régime ◽

Vital Element

The case of Richard Simon and the suppression of his book, Histoire critique du Vieux Testament in 1678 stands at a point where the interests of both Church and State in maintaining control of the book trade intersected. As such, the case is of interest in two important areas: first, from the point of view of the social and political history of the ancien régime in France, this case exhibits the intense concern for maintenance or extension of the powers of jurisdiction of the authorities which is so characteristic of the reign of Louis XIV. In some instances this preoccupation with autorité and droit led to an unseemly public jockeying for power, and it is interesting to see how the book trade is seen as a vital element in this struggle.

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Women and the Book Trade

Renaissance and Reformation ◽

10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0349 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Helen Smith

Keyword(s):

Comparative Research ◽

Women's Literature ◽

Book Trade ◽

History Of The Book ◽

Religious Reform ◽

Female Authors ◽

Women's Participation ◽

History Of ◽

Scribal Publication

Interest in women’s work in the Renaissance and Reformation book trades has been stimulated by the maturation of two important scholarly fields: the study of women’s literature and history, and the history of the book. Pettegree’s The Book in the Renaissance (Pettegree 2010, cited under General Overviews) exemplifies the ways in which recent scholarship has established the emergence of print as central to the production and articulation of national identity, religious reform, and international scholarly communities. The books and articles listed in the first half of this bibliography reveal much about women’s participation in the book trades across Europe and into the New World, but also make it clear that there is significant work still to be done, both in the form of individual, local, or national case studies, and in the form of ambitious comparative research. Seeking out the particularities of women’s engagement in the work of publication and with the products of the early modern book trade not only illuminates the operations of printing and bookselling in this period, but also pushes scholars to take a wide view of “publication” and of the role of consumers (purchasers, readers, and patrons) in shaping the print marketplace. The second half of this bibliography, largely but not wholly restricted to the English example, details important work on women and manuscript or scribal publication, how women entered into print and were presented (or presented themselves) as female authors, how print itself was imaginatively gendered, and women’s influence as buyers and readers.

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