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Johanningsmeier, Charles A. "Buying and Selling Words by the Thousand: Newspaper Syndicates and the American Literary Marketplace, 1860-1900," Department of English and American Studies, Indiana University, June 1993. Advisor: David J. Nordloh (9, 11, 19)
In the late nineteenth century, newspaper syndicates purchased thousands of works of fiction and sold them to multiple daily and weekly newspapers across the country for simultaneous publication. This dissertation documents the histories of the most influential syndicates, including the A.N. Kellogg Company, the American Press Association, S.S. McClure’s Associated Literary Press, and the Bacheller Syndicate. It also demonstrates that they exercised less hegemonic power over the production of fiction by authors, the distribution of fiction by newspaper editors, and the interaction with newspaper fiction by readers than did book and magazine editors and publishers. Authors whose works and careers figure prominently include Stephen Crane, Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman), Henry James, Sara Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Jack London, and Frank Norris.
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