Joseph McAleer

Call of the Atlantic

Jack London's Publishing Odyssey Overseas, 1902-1916

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses fresh archival material to explore Jack London's publishing career outside of North America, illuminating the relationships with publishers and agents, principally in Britain, as a key to understanding the character, drive, and international success of this popular figure of twentieth-century American letters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198747819
• ISBN-10: 0198747810
• Artikelnr.: 47868330

Autorenporträt

Joseph McAleer attended St John's College, Oxford as a graduate student, completing his D.Phil. in Modern History in 1989. His previous publications include Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 (OUP, 1992), which received the inaugural Longmans/History Today Book of the Year Award, and Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon (OUP, 1999). He has held a variety of interesting jobs, including university professor, Scottish castle administrator, corporate PR head, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church, editor,webmaster, and national film critic.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: Two Suitors, 1902-1904
2: The Star Rises, 1904-1906
3: Playing the Field, 1906-1909
4: The Old and the New, 1909-1911
5: Safe Haven, 1911-1913
6: Challenges at the End, 1914-1916
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendix