Bibliographie
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Reviews
Anon. ‘Een bekroonde Zweedsch-Finsche roman’, In : Algemeen Handelsblad, March 2, 1937. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
Anon. ‘De Meest verkochte boeken in December’. In : Haagsche Post, January 15, 1938. KB, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.
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Anon. ‘Sally Salminen’s bekroonde roman “Katrina”’. In : De Telegraaf, March 14, 1937. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
Anon. ‘Groot in beroemdheid. Groot in bescheidenheid’. In : De Tijd, August 28, 1938. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
Anon. ‘Bibliographie, SINT NICOLAAS’ KEUR-COLLECTIES.’ In : De Nieuwe Gids 52, December 1937, 593-594. Consulted via www.dbnl.org on November 25, 2015.
Anon. ‘Kunst en Letteren Kroniek’. In : Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, April 12, 1940. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
Anon. ‘Van de leestafel. De Amerikaansche succes-roman’. In : Limburger Koerier, June 20, 1938. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
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J.G. de Haas ‘Katrina’. In : Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, May 1, 1937. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
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A.J.D. van Oosten ‘Zweedsch-Finsche Literatuur’. In : De Tijd, July 12, 1937. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
V. Pearce Delgado ‘Literatuur in Amerika. De historie leeft’. In : Het Vaderland, November 1, 1936. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
A. Romein-Verschoor ‘Periscoop’ [review of Katrina]. In : Critisch Bulletin, 1937, 206.
J. van Schaik-Willing ‘Kracht en artisticiteit’ [review of Gone with the Wind]. In : Critisch Bulletin 1937, 79-82.
L. Schoenmakers [review of Gone with the Wind]. In : Boekengids 1938, 77. Consulted via www.dbnl.org on November 25, 2015.
Gabriël Smit ‘Een bekroonde roman’. In : De Gooi- en Eemlander : nieuws- en advertentieblad, May 2, 1937. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
C. Tazelaar ‘Over de trilogie van Margareth Michell [sic]’. In : Stemmen des Tijds 1938, 81-89. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
Figures
Figure 1 : NvdB, November 6, 1936. http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=dts:2770065:mpeg21:0009.
Figure 2 : photograph by Rick Luimes.
Figure 3 : NvdB, October 6, 1937. http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=dts:2774041:mpeg21:0013.
Other
Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” Pirated. Holland Publisher Sued by Margaret Mitchell”. In : The Publishers’ Weekly, December 18, 1937.
Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” in Holland’. In : The Publishers’ Weekly, February 19, 1938.
Anon. ‘Margaret Mitchell’s “Gejaagd door de wind” in beslag genomen. Auteursrechtkwestie’. In : Leeuwarder Courant , January 14, 1938. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
Anon. ‘Een nieuwe roman van Sally Salminen’. In : Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad, January 2, 1940. Consulted via www.delpher.nl on November 25, 2015.
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i Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, Convergences (Cambridge, MA etc.: Harvard University Press, 2004), 170–171.
ii Cf. Timothy W. Galow, Writing Celebrity. Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
iii Cf. Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, 170; Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell and Richard Barksdale Harwell, eds., Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ Letters, 1936-1949 (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987), xxviii. Recent sales numbers are unknown to me. The production of the Gone with the Wind motion picture was delayed, but negotiations about the film rights started right away after the publication of the novel.
iv Clive Bloom, Bestsellers. Popular Fiction since 1900 (Basingstoke etc.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 32; Cf. Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader. A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (Chicago etc.: The University of Chicago Press, 1963).
v Bloom, Bestsellers, 30–32; Altick, The English Common Reader, 141–187; Cf. Mary Hammond, Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914, The Nineteenth Century (Aldershot etc.: Ashgate, 2006), 3–4.
vi Stefan Collini, ‘Chapter 5: Highbrows and Other Aliens’, in Absent Minds. Intellectuals in Britain (Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2006), 110–119. About the role of these intermediaries, see: Gisèle Sapiro, ‘The Literary Field between the State and the Market’, Poetics 31, no. 5–6 (2003): 451; Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, ed. Richard Nice (London: Routledge, 2006), 325.
vii Pioneering works in middlebrow studies include: Joan Shelley Rubin, The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Chapel Hill etc.: University of North Carolina Press, 1992); Janice A. Radway, A Feeling for Books. The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire (Chapel Hill etc.: University of North Carolina Press, 1997); Ann L. Ardis, Modernism and Cultural Conflict. 1880 - 1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008).
viii Ardis, Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 116.
ix About the relation of middlebrow to Bourdieu’s conception of the literary field, see: Beth Driscoll, The New Literary Middlebrow. Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) (introduction); and: Caroline Pollentier, ‘Configuring Middleness: Bourdieu, L’art Moyen and the Broadbrow’, in Middlebrow Literary Cultures. The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960, ed. Erica Brown and Mary Grover (New York etc.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 37–51.
x Cf. Mathijs Sanders and Alex Rutten, ‘Who Framed Edgar Wallace? British Popular Fiction in the Netherlands’, in Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880-1930, ed. Kate Macdonald and Christoph Singer (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 223–41.
xi Cf. ibid., 226. Such complaints at least date back to the 19th century. Cf. Adriaan Hendrik van der Weel, Onbehagen in de schriftcultuur. Leesrevoluties in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw, (Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2007), 17. At the same time, critics complained that foreign quality works remained unknown in the Netherlands. Cf. Mathijs Sanders and Erica van Boven, ‘A Cream Pie with Rat Poison. La Madone in the Netherlands’, Relief 9, no. 1 (2015): 77–78.
xii L. van Krevelen, ‘Van liefhebberij tot cultureel ondernemerschap. Over de ontwikkeling van de literaire uitgeverijen in Nederland’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis 10 (2003): 13–14.
xiii Itamar Even-Zohar, ‘The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem’, Poetics Today. 11, no. 1 (1990): 47–48. During the nineteen-twenties, sixty to seventy per cent of the published novels were translations. Sanders and Rutten, ‘Who Framed Edgar Wallace? British Popular Fiction in the Netherlands’, 226. About the current situation in Europe, cf. Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, 168.
xiv Christiaan F. J. Schriks, Charles Gl. Behrens: portret van een journalist, vertaler, schrijver, boekverzorger, illustrator, graficus en briefschrijver (Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 1994), 27.; NvdB, December 7, 1939; NvdB, November 8, 1939.
xv His original name was Blits, but he used this dynamic spelling variant for his publishing house.
xvi NvdB, November 8, 1939; NvdB, November 15, 1939.
xvii This feast is somewhat comparable to Christmas.
xviii Hubregtse, ‘Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers: van ontstaan tot en met ontzuiling’, in Het zevende jaarboek voor het democratisch socialisme, ed. Marnix Krop et al., 1986, 146; For more information about Blitz, see: Renate Gertrud Fuks-Mansfeld, ‘Blits, Andries uitgever’, in Joden in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw. Een biografisch woordenboek, 2007, 28–29; and Anonymus, ‘Andries Blitz’, in De laatste bladzijde... Gewijd aan uitgevers, drukkers, boekhandelaren, typografen en omslagontwerpers die stierven in de oorlogsjaren 1940-1945, 1995, 8.
xix For this innovation Blitz cooperated with the socialist publishing house De Arbeiderspers (The Worker’s Press). Hubregtse, ‘Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers: van ontstaan tot en met ontzuiling’, 146–147.
xx Fuks-Mansfeld, ‘Blits, Andries uitgever’; Anonymus, ‘Andries Blitz’.
xxi Schriks, Charles Gl. Behrens, 24, 27–28; Fuks-Mansfeld, ‘Blits, Andries uitgever’, 28.
xxii Erica van Boven, Bestsellers in Nederland 1900-2015 (Antwerpen / Apeldoorn: Garant, 2015), 90–92. About the reception of Scandinavian literature in the Netherlands, see: Petra Broomans, ‘Scandinavische literatuur in Nederland: verslonden, verzuild en verguisd’, in In 1934. Nederlandse cultuur in internationale context, ed. Helleke van den Braber and J. A. W. Gielkens (Amsterdam etc.: Querido, 2010), 407–14; Els Biesemans and G. L. M. Laureys, ‘The Reception of Scandinavian Literature in the Netherlands and Flanders 1860-1940’, in Rethinking Cultural Transfer and Transmission. Reflections and New Perspectives, ed. Petra Broomans and Sandra van Voorst (Groningen: Barkhuis, 2012), 75–92.
xxiii The information in this paragraph is mainly derived from: Roger Holmström, ‘Against All Odds. Sally Salminen’s Katrina and the Possibilities of Cultural Transfer’, in Battles and Borders. Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Literature in Minor Language Areas, ed. Petra Broomans et al., Studies on Cultural Transfer and Transmission 7, 2015, 97–107; Cf. Anna Bondestam, ed., Sallys Saga: en bok om Sally Salminen till 50-årsminnet av ‘Katrina’ (Helsingfors: Schildt, 1986).
xxiv His first advertisement for the novel dates November 6, 1936.
xxv NvdB, February 10, 1937.
xxvi All quotes were translated by the author.
xxvii Cf. Holmström, ‘Against All Odds. Sally Salminen’s Katrina and the Possibilities of Cultural Transfer’, 103.
xxviii Anon. ‘Een nieuwe roman van Sally Salminen’. In: Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad, January 2, 1940.
xxix Galow, Writing Celebrity, 3.
xxx Gillis Dorleijn, ‘Grensverkeer in de media. De “Selbstinszenierung” van de auteur in literaire interviews’, in Out of the Box. Über den Wert des Grenzwertigen, ed. Emmeline Besamusca, Christine Hermann and Ulrike Vogl (Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2013), 87; Cf. Gillis Dorleijn and Pieter Verstraeten, ‘L'interview littéraire aux Pays-Bas. L'institutionnalisation d'un genre complexe’, forthcoming.
xxxi Ibid., 84–86; Cf. Galow, Writing Celebrity, 18–19.
xxxii Dorleijn, ‘Grensverkeer in de media. De “Selbstinszenierung” van de auteur in literaire interviews’, 84–86.
xxxiii Cf. Galow, Writing Celebrity, 29.
xxxiv Anon. ‘De Meest verkochte boeken in December’. In: Haagsche Post, January 15, 1938. This first monthly bestseller list in the Netherlands existed from 1933 until 1939. Van Boven, Bestsellers in Nederland 1900-2015, 44–45. Of course one should be careful with this information, because bestseller lists are by definition unreliable and offer no exact sales numbers. For the lack of reliable (historical) information on book sales, see: Bloom, Bestsellers, 28 and further.
xxxv NvdB, November 1, 1939; De Telegraaf, March 1, 1950.
xxxvi Petra Broomans, Zweedse en Zweedstalige Finse auteurs in Nederlandse vertaling, 1491-2007. Een bibliografie, Studies on Cultural Transfer and Transmission, (Groningen: Barkhuis, 2013), 285–286; Cf. Schriks, Charles Gl. Behrens, 27–28.
xxxvii Fuks-Mansfeld, ‘Blits, Andries uitgever’.
xxxviii Ibid.; Hubregtse, ‘Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers: van ontstaan tot en met ontzuiling’, 148.
xxxix Hubregtse, ‘Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers: van ontstaan tot en met ontzuiling’, 156.
xl The title of her lecture was: ‘Noren, Zweden, Finnen en Denen, hun overeenkomsten en tegenstellingen’. De Waarheid, June 5, 1946; De Waarheid, June 13, 1946; Het Vrije Volk, June 19, 1946.
xli Anon. ‘Een bekroonde Zweedsch-Finsche roman’, In: Algemeen Handelsblad, March 2, 1937; J.G. de Haas ‘Katrina’. In: Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, May 1, 1937.
xlii Mathijs Sanders, ‘Het buitenland bekeken’, in In 1934. Nederlandse cultuur in internationale context (Querido, 2010), 303. Sanders used the Dutch national bibliography (Brinkman’s Catalogue) for his analysis of the situation in 1934. Works translated from English and American English accounted for 27,3% of the fiction production, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish works together accounted for 3,4%, whereas for instance no Spanish works were translated into Dutch in 1934.
xliii De Haas ‘Katrina’; Anon. ‘Een bekroonde Zweedsch-Finsche roman’.
xliv De Haas ‘Katrina’.
xlv P. Hardy, [review of Katrina]. In: Boekengids 1937, 343-344; De Haas ‘Katrina’.
xlvi De Haas ‘Katrina’.
xlvii P. Hardy, [review of Katrina].
xlviii Anon. [review of Katrina]. In: Studiën. Tijdschrift voor godsdienst, wetenschap en letteren, 1938 (129), 277-278.
xlix De Haas ‘Katrina’; Anon. [review of Katrina]. In: Soerabaijasch handelsblad, December 10, 1937.
l Anon. ‘Sally Salminen’s bekroonde roman “Katrina”’. In: De Telegraaf, March 14, 1937; Gabriël Smit ‘Een bekroonde roman’. In: De Gooi- en Eemlander : nieuws- en advertentieblad, May 2, 1937.
li Gabriël Smit ‘Een bekroonde roman’.
lii Cf. Ryanne Keltjens, ‘“The Miraculous Secret of a Good Book”: Representations of the Reading Experience in Dutch Middlebrow Criticism’, Forthcoming; Erica van Boven, ‘Cultuurdebat in Nederland. De gemiddelde lezer contra `intellectualisme’ in de late jaren dertig’, Spiegel der Letteren 54, no. 3 (2012): 359–360.
liii De Haas ‘Katrina’.
liv Sanders and Rutten, ‘Who Framed Edgar Wallace? British Popular Fiction in the Netherlands’, 234–235.
lv De Haas ‘Katrina’. (emphasis added)
lvi Cf. Van Boven, ‘Cultuurdebat in Nederland. De gemiddelde lezer contra `intellectualisme’ in de late jaren dertig’, 358.
lvii Sanders and Rutten, ‘Who Framed Edgar Wallace? British Popular Fiction in the Netherlands’, 233–236; Erica van Boven, ‘Hollandse helden. Gemeenschap en natie in middlebrowromans’, Nederlandse Letterkunde 18, no. 3 (2013): 158.
lviii Cf. Van Boven, ‘Cultuurdebat in Nederland. De gemiddelde lezer contra `intellectualisme’ in de late jaren dertig’; Erica van Boven and Mathijs Sanders, ‘Strijd om het middenveld. Middlebrow in de literaire kritiek: Menno ter Braak en P.H. Ritter Jr.’, Vooys 29, no. 1/2 (2011): 17–27; Keltjens, ‘“The Miraculous Secret of a Good Book”: Representations of the Reading Experience in Dutch Middlebrow Criticism’.
lix Mathijs Sanders, ‘De criticus als bemiddelaar. Middlebrow en de Nederlandse literaire kritiek in het interbellum’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 124, no. 4 (2008): 312–33; Sanders and Rutten, ‘Who Framed Edgar Wallace? British Popular Fiction in the Netherlands’; Cf. Joan Shelley Rubin, ‘Introduction’, in The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Chapel Hill etc.: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), xvi.
lx Van Boven, ‘Cultuurdebat in Nederland. De gemiddelde lezer contra `intellectualisme’ in de late jaren dertig’, 358–359, 364.
lxi Cf. Galow, Writing Celebrity, 27, 29.
lxii De Haas ‘Katrina’; Anon. [review of Katrina]. In: Studiën; Anon. [review of Katrina]. In: Soerabaijasch handelsblad; Bertil Jörnson ‘Uit het hooge Noorden’. In: Leeuwarder courant, February 27,1937; Anon. ‘Sally Salminen’s bekroonde roman “Katrina”’. In: De Telegraaf.
lxiii Anon. [review of Katrina]. In: Soerabaijasch handelsblad; A. Romein-Verschoor ‘Periscoop’ [review of Katrina]. In: Critisch Bulletin, 1937, 206; Anon. ‘Sally Salminen’s bekroonde roman “Katrina”’. In: De Telegraaf; De Haas ‘Katrina’.
lxiv A.J.D. van Oosten ‘Zweedsch-Finsche Literatuur’. In: De Tijd, July 12, 1937; De Haas ‘Katrina’; Anon. [review of Katrina]. In: Soerabaijasch handelsblad.
lxv Anon. ‘Groot in beroemdheid. Groot in bescheidenheid’. In: De Tijd, August 28, 1938. Cf. Het Vrije Volk, June 19, 1946.
lxvi Pieck also took care of the illustrations in the Dutch translation of Gulbranssen’s Björndal Trilogy (ZHUM, 1935-1936). Broomans, ‘Scandinavische literatuur in Nederland: verslonden, verzuild en verguisd’, 409, 412.
lxvii The novel was translated by W.J.A. Roldanus Jr.
lxviii Cf. Gerard van Eckeren ‘Het boek van de week’ [review of Gone with the Wind first volume and Robert Nathan The Enchanted Voyage]. In: Eigen Haard 1937, 822-823, 822.
lxix Mitchell and Harwell, Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ Letters, 1936-1949, xxvii; Michael Korda, Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999 (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2001), 59.
lxx Jo van Rosmalen, ‘Economische wederwaardigheden van boekhandel en uitgeverij tussen de jaren 1877 en 1977’, in Het lam voor de glazen: opstellen over een eeuw boekbedrijf : 1877-1977, ed. Dingeman van der Stoep (Baarn: Ambo, 1977), 144.
lxxi NvdB, March 30, 1938.
lxxii Anon. ‘Van de leestafel. De Amerikaansche succes-roman’. In: Limburger Koerier, June 20, 1938.
lxxiii Hans Anten, Van realisme naar zakelijkheid. Proza-opvattingen tussen 1916 en 1932 (Reflex, 1982), 9, 13–32; Erica van Boven, Een hoofdstuk apart. ‘Vrouwenromans’ in de literaire kritiek 1898-1930 (Amsterdam: Sara/Van Gennep, 1992), 66–67.
lxxiv NvdB, October 6, 1937; The original edition was published on June 30, 1936. Finis Farr, Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta: The Author of ‘Gone with the Wind’ (New York: Morrow, 1965), 1.
lxxv NvdB, October 6, 1937
lxxvi Amongst others: De Telegraaf, February 9, 1940; Het Vaderland, January 17, 1940.
lxxvii Cf. Gisèle Sapiro, ‘Les professions intellectuelles entre l’État, l’entrepreneuriat et l’industrie’, Le Mouvement Social 214, no. 1 (2006): 9.
lxxviii Darden Asbury Pyron, Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell (New York, N.Y. etc.: Oxford University Press, 1991), 449.; Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” Pirated. Holland Publisher Sued by Margaret Mitchell”. In: The Publishers’ Weekly, December 18, 1937.
lxxix NvdB, January 19, 1938; Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” in Holland’. In: The Publishers’ Weekly, February 19, 1938.
lxxx Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” in Holland’; Cf. Het Vaderland March 20, 1938.
lxxxi Mitchell and Harwell, Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ Letters, 1936-1949, 197.
lxxxii Pyron, Southern Daughter, 422–423; Farr, Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta, 172–173, 221.
lxxxiii The US joined the Berne Convention in 1989. Cf. http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/ (Visited on November 25, 2015); Sam Ricketson, The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: 1886-1986 (London / Deventer: Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London / Kluwer, 1987), 923.
lxxxiv Ibid., 924; Pyron, Southern Daughter, 449.
lxxxv Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” Pirated. Holland Publisher Sued by Margaret Mitchell”;
Mitchell and Harwell, Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ Letters, 1936-1949, 196–197. Cf. NvdB, March 2, 1938; NvdB, May 10, 1939.
lxxxvi Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” in Holland’.; NvdB, January 19, 1938. This Committee was part of the Vereeniging ter Bevordering van de Belangen des Boekhandels (Association for Promoting the Interests of the Book Trade). Cf. Adriaan van der Weel, ‘Dutch Nineteenth-Century Attitudes to International Copyright’, Publishing History 47 (2000): 33.
lxxxvii Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” in Holland’.
lxxxviii Pyron, Southern Daughter, 449–452.
lxxxix Ibid., 431.
xc Amongst others: De Telegraaf January 3, 1938; NvdB, January 5, 1938; Anon. ‘Margaret Mitchell’s “Gejaagd door de wind” in beslag genomen. Auteursrechtkwestie’. In: Leeuwarder Courant , January 14, 1938.
xci NvdB, January 19, 1938.
xcii Mitchell and Harwell, Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ Letters, 1936-1949, 197.; Statement of De Uitgever, February 1938, translated and reproduced in: Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” in Holland’.; Cf. NvdB, January 5, 1938.
xciii NvdB, January 5, 1938; The author is referring to: Anon. ‘“Gone with the Wind” Pirated. Holland Publisher Sued by Margaret Mitchell”; Cf: NvdB, March 16, 1938.
xciv The Netherlands themselves were in fact rather late in fully implementing copyright law, as compared to other European countries. Adriaan van der Weel, ‘Het “hardnekkige isolement” van Nederland in de geschiedenis van de toetreding tot de Berner Conventie.’, Van het boek en de rand: boeketje boekwetenschap III, 2013, 26–31.
xcv Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, 170–171; Cf. Van der Weel, ‘Dutch Nineteenth-Century Attitudes to International Copyright’, 40–42.
xcvi Van der Weel, ‘Dutch Nineteenth-Century Attitudes to International Copyright’.
xcvii The edition was published in December 1945. Pyron, Southern Daughter, 450.
xcviii Het Vaderland, March 20, 1938.
xcix C. Tazelaar ‘Over de trilogie van Margareth Michell [sic]’. In: Stemmen des Tijds 1938, 81-89, 89; J. van Schaik-Willing ‘Kracht en artisticiteit’ [review of Gone with the Wind]. In: Critisch Bulletin 1937, 79-82, 80.
c Anon. ‘Bibliographie, SINT NICOLAAS' KEUR-COLLECTIES.’ In: De Nieuwe Gids 52, December 1937, 593-594; Anon. ‘Kunst en Letteren Kroniek’. In: Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, April 12, 1940.
ci Cf. Radway’s description of the values and tastes middlebrow critics promoted as ‘a kind of social pedagogy’. Radway, A Feeling for Books, 15; Cf. Van Boven, ‘Cultuurdebat in Nederland. De gemiddelde lezer contra `intellectualisme’ in de late jaren dertig’, 366; Nicola Humble, The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism (Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2001), 47–50.
cii Anon. ‘Van de leestafel. De Amerikaansche succes-roman’.
ciii V. Pearce Delgado ‘Literatuur in Amerika. De historie leeft’. In: Het Vaderland, November 1, 1936.
civ Van Schaik-Willing ‘Kracht en artisticiteit’, 81.
cv These responses coincided with international reactions on the novel. Cf. Pyron, Southern Daughter, 432.
cvi Van Eckeren, ‘Het boek van de week’, 822.
cvii L. Schoenmakers [review of Gone with the Wind]. In: Boekengids 1938, 77; Anon. ‘Van de leestafel. De Amerikaansche succes-roman’; Anon. ‘Bibliographie, SINT NICOLAAS' KEUR-COLLECTIES.’
cviii Van Schaik-Willing, ‘Kracht en artisticiteit’.
cix Van Schaik-Willing ‘Kracht en artisticiteit’, 80.
cx Van Boven, Een hoofdstuk apart.
cxi Erica van Boven, ‘De middlebrow-roman schrijft terug. Visies op elite en “hoge literatuur” in enkele publieksromans rond 1930’, TNTL 125 (2009): 285–305.
cxii Cf. Andreas Huyssen, ‘Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other’, in After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, 399 (Bloomington etc.: Indiana University press, 1986), 44–62; Erica van Boven, ‘4 `Laat óns het geestelijk leven’. De elite en de publieksliteratuur in het interbellum’, in Van spiegels en vensters. De literaire canon in Nederland, ed. Lizet Duyvendak and Saskia Pieterse (Hilversum: Verloren, 2009), 62–64; Humble, The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s, 18.
cxiii Cf. Sanders and Rutten, ‘Who Framed Edgar Wallace? British Popular Fiction in the Netherlands’, 227; Keltjens, ‘“The Miraculous Secret of a Good Book”: Representations of the Reading Experience in Dutch Middlebrow Criticism’.
cxiv Isabelle Kalinowski, ‘Der Französische Hölderlin, Theorie des Literarischen Feldes und Rezeptionsforschung’, in Text und Feld: Bourdieu in der Literaturwissenschaftlichen Praxis, ed. Markus Joch and Norbert Christian Wolf (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005), 248.
cxv Ibid., 259–260.
cxvi The author wants to thank Anne-Fleur van der Meer for gathering some of the material, and Petra Broomans, Erica van Boven, Mathijs Sanders, Pieter Verstraeten, Meriel Benjamins and Alex Rutten for their commentary on earlier versions of this article.
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