CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Print in Transition: Magazines, Adventure, and Threats of New Media, 1880-1920
1: Empires of Print: An Imperial History of Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Expansion
Part I: "The History of Text Involves the History of its Dissemination"
The Imperial Press Conference of 1909
Periodical Expansion, Publishing Networks
Periodical Expansion and the Media Empire
Part II: Popular Adventure Fiction and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Form
"My Empire is of the Imagination"
2: Imperial Technologies: Adventure and the Threat of New Media in Conrad’s Lord Jim (1899)
Conrad as a Blackwood’s Author
Blackwood’s at the Turn of the Century
Serializing Lord Jim’s Patusan Section
3: Transatlantic Crossings: The Technological Scene of H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909)
The Materiality of Texts and Simultaneous Transatlantic Serialization
Collating and Comparing Two "First" Appearances: Title-Level
Collating and Comparing Two "First" Appearances: Issue and Constituent-Level
Conclusion
4: Spectacular Texts: Conan Doyle’s Essays on Photography and The Lost World (1912)
Part I: Essays on Photography
Part II: Picturing the Lost World
5: Deciphered Codes: John Buchan in All-Story Weekly (1915) and The Popular Magazine (1919)
The Pulp Buchan
British Institutions, American Pulps
A Master of Pace: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
Breaking the Pulp Code: Mr. Standfast (1919)
Conclusion
Conclusion: Lost in Transit: Sax Rohmer, Conan Doyle, and Baroness Orczy’s Eldorado (1913) in Africa
Appendix A: British and American Books, Magazines, and Newspapers: Titles by Year (1860-1922)
Appendix B: Representative Authors’ Payments for First UK & U.S. Serial Rights (1884-1938)
Appendix C: Average Delivery Time of Mail Packet Steamers by Decade (1840-1920)
Appendix D: Major International Copyright Legislation Affecting Authors (1880-1920)
Appendix E: Commercial Statistics of the Principal Countries of the World (1904-1906)
Appendix F: American Pulp Magazine Circulations (1900-1922)
Appendix G: Advertising Ratios in Representative British and American Magazines (1919)
Appendix H: List of Magazines, Newspapers, etc., Found Loose (Kenya Gazette, May 1913)
Appendix I: Combined Monthly Totals from "List of Magazines, Newspapers, etc.," Kenya Gazette, 1900-22
Bibliography
Index
