Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Why Did the Professional Literary Agent Emerge in the 1880s? 12
7. 2. A.P. Watt: Professional Literary Agent 27
8. 3. Establishing the Agency Model: George MacDonald and Watt 40
9. 4. Testing the Agency Model: ‘Lucas Malet’ and Watt 64
10. 5. The Second Wave of Agenting: J.B. Pinker 87
11. 6. The Agent and ‘Popular’ Literature: Somerville and Ross and Pinker 111
12. 7. Building a Career: Joseph Conrad and Pinker 136
13. Conclusion 165
14. Notes 173
15. Works Cited 221
16. Index 231
17. Backmatter 249