Description
Book SynopsisBy way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light on the material conditions of the circulation of texts across the Atlantic between 1944 and 1955, exploring the fine mechanisms of agents' negotiations which allowed texts, and ideas, to cross borders. While providing comparative insights into the history of publishing in France and in the United States in the immediate aftermath of the war, this book aims at foregrounding the role of the book agent, an all-too often neglected intermediary in the field of book history. Grounded in archival work conducted both in France and the United States, this study is based on previously unexamined correspondence. Considering the concept of mediation as central in the field of print culture, this book addresses the dearth of scholarship on liter
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Mediators in the pre-war transatlantic market
Chapter 2 – New beginnings: 1944-1946
Chapter 3 – New markets for the taking: 1946-1955
Chapter 4 – Cultural transfers and transatlantic negotiations
Chapter 5 – Bridging the divide: frictions and business culture
Conclusion
List of references
