16 janvier 2017

Popular reading and publishing in Britain 1914-1950




Joseph McAleer

Popular reading and publishing
in Britain 1914-1950

Oxford University Press/
Clarendon Press
Oxford, U.K.
XIV + 284 pages, 1992
ISBN / 0-19-820329-2



Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. Popular reading and publishing 1870-1914
2. "Books are a commodity" : The commercialization of popular fiction
3. "The quickest way out of Glasgow" : Adult reading habits
4. "Take the place of Valium" : Mills & Boon Ltd
5. "We must prevent the leakage" : Children's reading habits
6. "Get me the boy from the age of six" : D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd
7. "The public mind might be diverted" : The religious tract society
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index



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