by Dennis Butts (Editor), JuliaBriggs (Author), M . O . Grenby (Editor)
Analyzes how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate literary success. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, science schoolbooks or Victorian adventures, this volume shows how historical and publishing contexts are important in determining which books will succeed and which will fail.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 28 Jun 2008
ISBN 10: 1840142421
ISBN 13: 9781840142426