tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post3759759543484603721..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The history of reading, updates from the field - Jonathan Rose's Readers' LiberationAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-44418934614313564482020-02-04T12:40:26.040-06:002020-02-04T12:40:26.040-06:00This does sound interesting. I'll have to find...This does sound interesting. I'll have to find a copy.reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818057262934008241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-33929184736271320392019-05-06T10:56:28.281-05:002019-05-06T10:56:28.281-05:00Oh, that looks good. A good one to raid the bibli...Oh, that looks good. A good one to raid the bibliography, too.<br /><br />Manning has an <a href="http://www.mollymanning.com/author/museum/" rel="nofollow">interesting website</a>, with some images I might steal. "Our Boys Want Books" - true!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2779603071729238672019-05-06T10:31:06.929-05:002019-05-06T10:31:06.929-05:00Another recommendation for you:
When Books Went ...Another recommendation for you: <br />When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Manning (2015) has a list of ASE books published. gina in alabamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-35169382926062880402019-05-04T22:56:48.215-05:002019-05-04T22:56:48.215-05:00That's right, books the US military had printe...That's right, books the US military had printed for the troops. The <a href="https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/exhibitions/penandpress/case14c.htm" rel="nofollow">ASE Woolf book</a> was <i>The Years</i>. "156,700 copies were printed"!<br /><br />Book around the Corner has written about American novels available only in French - a French publisher but no American publisher! Nuts.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-39013236642638483082019-05-04T14:14:57.453-05:002019-05-04T14:14:57.453-05:00Fascinating. The Armed Services Editions, featurin...<br />Fascinating. The Armed Services Editions, featuring even Virginia Woolf! - was that something funded by our own military? And thanks for making that point about French readers reading everything. One phenomenon I've noticed over there is that the American writers the French read are often people I've never heard of in the U.S., which has led me to more than a few discoveries. I'm reminded of Italo Calvino's perhaps slightly exaggerated comment: <br /><br /> “Good literature in American is clandestine, lies in unknown authors’ drawers, and only occasionally someone emerges from the gloom breaking through the leaden cloak of commercial production.” seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-45706933471970328432019-05-03T14:14:09.594-05:002019-05-03T14:14:09.594-05:00That one is not in Rose's book, thanks!
It is...That one is not in Rose's book, thanks!<br /><br />It is such an interesting subject. I would love to read a similar book about, say, German bestsellers or whatever.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73429332104822823812019-05-03T12:57:38.815-05:002019-05-03T12:57:38.815-05:00I would like to recommend "What America Read:...I would like to recommend "What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960" (2009) by Gordon Hutner. It is a wonderful resource for discovering long forgotten best selling books and provides an interesting analysis of trends in bookselling and marketing in those years. It is a guilty pleasure! <br /><br />by Gordon Hutner gina in alabamanoreply@blogger.com