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My country: right or left? How the Left Book Club lost the battle, but won the war

My country: right or left? How the Left Book Club lost the battle, but won the war 61 LOGOS 22/3 © 2011 LOGOS LOGOS Jonathan Roscoe Jonathan Roscoe has over 15 years’ experience of working in the publishing indus- try, at, amongst others, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and currently Palgrave Macmil- lan. Over this time he has worked in most areas of academic publishing, including monographs, textbooks, and journals and somehow he’s now finding the time to also study for an MA in Book History and Publishing Culture at Oxford Brookes University. Following his first degree in English, Roscoe took time to work not only in pub- lishing, but also in financial services and training, before returning to his academic endeavours in 2010. He now combines marketing textbooks at Palgrave with a study of British publishing of the 1930s. Email: 10099186@brookes.ac.uk My country: right or left? How the Left Book Club lost the battle, but won the war Introduction In publishing terms, Britain in the 1930s belonged to two men: Allen Lane at Penguin and Victor Gollancz, founder of the Left Book Club (LBC). If, as John Carey says, ‘The early 20th century saw a deter- mined effort, on the part of the European intelligentsia, to exclude the masses from culture’ (Carey 1992, pp. 16–17), http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

My country: right or left? How the Left Book Club lost the battle, but won the war

Logos , Volume 22 (3): 61 – Jan 1, 2011
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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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61 LOGOS 22/3 © 2011 LOGOS LOGOS Jonathan Roscoe Jonathan Roscoe has over 15 years’ experience of working in the publishing indus- try, at, amongst others, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and currently Palgrave Macmil- lan. Over this time he has worked in most areas of academic publishing, including monographs, textbooks, and journals and somehow he’s now finding the time to also study for an MA in Book History and Publishing Culture at Oxford Brookes University. Following his first degree in English, Roscoe took time to work not only in pub- lishing, but also in financial services and training, before returning to his academic endeavours in 2010. He now combines marketing textbooks at Palgrave with a study of British publishing of the 1930s. Email: 10099186@brookes.ac.uk My country: right or left? How the Left Book Club lost the battle, but won the war Introduction In publishing terms, Britain in the 1930s belonged to two men: Allen Lane at Penguin and Victor Gollancz, founder of the Left Book Club (LBC). If, as John Carey says, ‘The early 20th century saw a deter- mined effort, on the part of the European intelligentsia, to exclude the masses from culture’ (Carey 1992, pp. 16–17),

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