Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Dedication
Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
I. THE READING WORLD
	1. Back to the Future: Authors at the Movies
	2. Consenting and Dissenting Bibliophiles in Public and Private
	3. Literary Advice and Advisers
	4. Reviews and Reviewers
	5. The Great Tradition
	6 The Commemoration Movement
	7. English Literature’s Foreign Relations; or, ‘’E dunno ou` il est!’
II. WRITERS AND THE PUBLIC: THE PRICE OF FAME
	8. Product Advertising and Self-Advertising
	9. The Star Turn
	10. Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure
	11. Securing the Future
	12. Titles and Laurels
	13. Social Prestige and Clubbability
	14. The Aristocratic Round and Salon Circle
	15. Looking and Acting the Part
	16. Lecture Tours
	17. Literary Properties and Agencies
III. BEST-SELLERS
	18. Market Conditions
	19. In Cupid’s Chains: Charles Garvice
	20. Hymns and Heroines: Florence Barclay
	21. The Epic Ego: Hall Caine
	22. The Demonic Dreamer: Marie Corelli
	23. Authors at Play: Nat Gould Leads the Field
IV. WRITERS AND THE PUBLIC: PENMEN AS PUNDITS
	24. The Campaign Trail
	25. Public Service and Party Politics
	26. Pens at War
	27. Pricking Censorship
	28. Theology versus Sociology and Psychology
Bibliography
Index of Book, Essay, Pamphlet, Play, Poem and Short Story Titles
General Index