Talk:J. M. Dent

Listing of titles

What about a listing of titles produced by J M Dent?

Would that be feasible or not?

Why is there no mention of Le Morte Darthur (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley in 1892/93) which Dent published in 1893? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.95.59.130 (talk) 11:49, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

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Notes of JM Dent from Jonathan Rose (2001) J.M.Dent b.1849 was another working class autodidact. He saw the canonic ’great works’ as a body of knowledge that anyone could acquire given cheap editions. This realisation occurred when he was part of the Toynbee Hall Shakespeare Society. People were reading from wildly varied editions… He set out to publish 40 standardised volumes of the Temple Shakespeare (1894 - 96) edited by Israel Gollancz and designed to be read aloud. p.132. He followed the success of this with the Temple Classics - 300 of which were published by 1918. He then went on to publish the ground-breaking Everyman Library of English literature with Ernest Rhys as editor launched in 1906. It reached volume 1000 in 1956 with Aristotle’s Metaphysics. In that 50 years the canon of great literature had shifted. Most of this 1000 were out of copyright, though not all. Also the copyright act of 1911 extended author rights for 50 years after their death. This held up the Everyman edition of Middlemarch until 1930. The House of Dent also published proletarian writers (p.135) Thomas Okey, F.C. Boden, Roger Dataller, Rowland Kenney, James Griffiths, Harry Snell. “By 1975 more than 60 million copies of 1,239 Everyman vols had been sold worldwide.” p.135 Certain commercial laws of price and scale helped this success as they favoured books with a long standing reputation and perhaps also some glamour of being classics of the literary class. This was bolstered by the widespread idea that (English) literature could “abolish classes and establish world peace.” Dent certainly seems worthy of a more detailed entry. Szczels (talk) 16:27, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

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