Biography of a book : Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils / Paul Eggert.

By: Eggert, Paul, 1951- [author.]Contributor(s): West, James L. W [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn State Studies in the History of the BookPublisher: University of Sydney, N.S.W. : Sydney University Press, in association with The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013Copyright date: © 2013Description: xxx, 385 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles ; 22 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781743320143 (hardback); 9781743320129 (paperback)Subject(s): Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. While the billy boils | Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. While the billy boils | Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation | Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. While the billy boils | Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. While the billy boils | Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922. While the billy boils | Short stories, Australian -- History and criticism | Australian prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Australian prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | AustralianDDC classification: A823.2 LOC classification: PR9619.2 | .L3795 Z8 2013
Contents:
A writing career in the making : Lawson's early life -- Lawson in the literary marketplace : The worker, The bulletin and short stories in prose and verse -- Author and publisher : Lawson and Angus & Robertson -- The revision and copy-editing of While the billy boils : Lawson and Arthur W. Jose -- The making of a book : texts and illustrations -- Respecting the marketplace : the publishers' natural wish to make a fat 5s. volume -- Lawson's no longer : publication of While the billy boils -- Early reception of While the billy boils : the first five years -- Who made the money, and how much?; or, why Lawson went to England -- "Pursuing literature" : Lawson's stories in Britain, 1900-1902 -- The afterlife of While the billy boils : Lawson's reputation in the postwar period -- Australian literary criticism and scholarly editing from the 1980s : While the billy boils as cross-section.
Summary: 'Biography of a book' traces the life of an iconic Australian literacy work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection 'While the billy boils'.
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Biography of a Book is co-published with The Pennsylvania State University Press in its History of the Book series, edited by James L. W. West III.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A writing career in the making : Lawson's early life -- Lawson in the literary marketplace : The worker, The bulletin and short stories in prose and verse -- Author and publisher : Lawson and Angus & Robertson -- The revision and copy-editing of While the billy boils : Lawson and Arthur W. Jose -- The making of a book : texts and illustrations -- Respecting the marketplace : the publishers' natural wish to make a fat 5s. volume -- Lawson's no longer : publication of While the billy boils -- Early reception of While the billy boils : the first five years -- Who made the money, and how much?; or, why Lawson went to England -- "Pursuing literature" : Lawson's stories in Britain, 1900-1902 -- The afterlife of While the billy boils : Lawson's reputation in the postwar period -- Australian literary criticism and scholarly editing from the 1980s : While the billy boils as cross-section.

'Biography of a book' traces the life of an iconic Australian literacy work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection 'While the billy boils'.

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