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 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