The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume 2

Chapter 1 Introduction. Wondering about ‘the Causes of Causes’: The Publisher’s Series, Its Cultural Work and Meanings

Chapter 2 The American Publisher’s Series Goes to War, 1942–1946

Chapter 3 The Foreign Series of Herder Verlag by 1900: International Catholic Literature

Chapter 4 Adamantios Korais’s ‘The Greek Library’ (1805–1827): An Ingenious Publisher and the Making of a Nation

Chapter 5 Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library

Chapter 6 Women’s Series — by Women, for Women?

Chapter 7 Leonard Bast’s Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition

Chapter 8 Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan’s Colonial Library and Author Contracts

Chapter 9 Household Words: An Account of the ‘Bengal Family Library’

Chapter 10 Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent’s Everyman’s Library

Chapter 11 ‘The Green and the Gold’: Series Publishing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland