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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the condition of American book publishing was decidedly primitive and disorganized; there simply were no literary publishers, in the modern sense of the term, in the United States. ... What may be more important, it was to a large extent the business of printing, advertising, and distributing British books that brought native publishing from infancy to the beginning of maturity, and there had to be a mature and relatively stable publishing industry before a true "American literature" could come into existence.
――東京学芸大学 前期日程/中学校過程英語、国際理解教育課程多言語多文化、欧米研究専攻(2月25日実施)――2006年
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