Writers, readers, and reputations: literary life in Britain 1870-1918

I.The reading world: back to the future: Authors at the movies

Consenting and dissenting bibliophiles in public and private

Literary advice and advisers

Reviews and reviewers

The great tradition

The commemoration movement

English literature's foreign relations; or, ''E dunno o̮ il est!'

II.Writers and the public: the cost of fame : Product advertising and self-advertising

The star turn

Playing the press: entry and exposure

Securing the future

Titles and laurels

Social prestige and clubbability

The aristocratic round and salon circle

Looking and acting the part

Lecture tours

Literary properties and agencies

III.Best-sellers: Market conditions

In Cupid's chains: Charles Garvice

Hymns and heroines: Florence Barclay

The epic ego: Hall Caine

The demonic dreamer: Marie Corelli

Authors at play: Nat Gould leads the field

IV.Writers and the public: penmen as pundits: The campaign trail

Public service and party politics

Pens at war

Pricking censorship

Theology versus sociology and psychology.