“They paved the Atlantic with books”
William and Jenny Bradley, literary agents and cultural passeurs across borders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21798262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurence Cossu-Beaumont (0000-0001-9263-3558, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transatlantica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1765-2766 • E-ISSN: 1765-2766 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/transatlantica.20686 |
| OpenAlex | W4383109576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
The William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records help trace the careers of William and Jenny Bradley, two intermediaries in the cultural exchanges between France and the United States in the twentieth century. The archive offers privileged access to an array of transatlantic negotiations in the interwar period and post-Second World War era. This article first aims at including the two agents into the communications circuit relevant to book history that unfolds from writer to editor and on to reader, at a time when the book industry became more international. The article then unveils the sociability rooted in the agents’ participation in the world of Parisian salons and in the building of literary and intellectual relationships in the transnational space of Paris. Ultimately, the article argues that the Bradleys’ lifework articulates cultures in ways that defy the simplified vision of a unidirectional flux in what has been suggested to be an “American Century” of influence and cultural domination. In sum, an interest in intermediation and a transnational approach bring together considerations over the professional contributions of the French-American literary agents and observations about little-known makers of cultural processes. This article draws from the manuscript of Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain : William et Jenny Bradley, passeurs culturels transatlantiques (Cossu-Beaumont, 2023) and hopefully serves to shed light on the journeys of William and Jenny Bradley as Atlantic passeurs
Art history · Atlantic World · Intermediary · Intermediation · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies
Cultures in Motion
Les transferts culturels franco-allemands
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Commerce et marchés du livre, vus de Paris, à l’époque moderne
Faulkner in France
Le temps des hommes doubles
What Is the History of Books?” Revisited
L’agence littéraire Bradley ou le livre au service de l’histoire
Rene Maran, The New Negro and Negritude
Irresistible Empire
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |