Empires of Print

Patrick Scott Belk is Assistant Professor of English in the Multimedia and Digital Culture program at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, USA, principal investigator for The Pulp Magazines Project, and webmaster for the Joseph Conrad Society UK.

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 Ye