Sutherland 1976
From Commonplace Book
Sutherland, John A. Victorian Novelists and Publishers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Print.
Intro
- 1: Even where they did not directly interfere in the novelist's life, the composition of his fiction or the form of his literary vehicle, the publisher's skills were often as instrumental to success as anything the author might contribute.
- 5 Louis James in his Fiction for the Working Man lists ninety publishers of penny-installment fiction between 1830 and 1850, which at a conservative estimate means that for every producer above the literary threshold there were ten beneath it.
- 6: Many of the great novels of the period which appear to be the unaided product of creative genius were often, as I set out to show, the outcome of collaboration, compromise or commission. Works like Henry Esmond, Middlemarch or Framley Parsonage cannot be fully appreciated unless we see them as partnership productions.
