Print Cultures

PART ONE: Publishing Theory and Practice.- Introduction.- Stanley Unwin, The Truth About a Publisher.- Pierre Bourdieu, The Market of Symbolic Goods.- Gérard Genette, Introduction to Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation.- Lynne Spender, Intruders on the Rights of Men: Women's Unpublished Heritage.- John Thompson, Introduction to Merchants of Culture.- Michael Bhaskar, The Digital Context and Challenge.- PART TWO: Authorship.- Introduction.- Mary Ann Gillies, Agents and the Field of Print Culture.- Joe Moran, Disembodied Images: Authors, Authorship and Celebrity.- Juliet Gardiner, 'What is an Author': Contemporary Publishing Discourse and the Author Figure.- Laura Dietz, Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era.- George Landow, Reconfiguring the Author.- PART THREE: Readers and the Literary Marketplace.- Introduction.- Q. D. Leavis, The Book Market.- Geoffrey Faber, A Publisher Looks at Booksellers.- Janice Radway, The Scandal of the Middlebrow.- Clive Bloom, How the British Read.- PART FOUR: Censorship and Print Culture.- Introduction.- Sue Curry Jansen, The Censor's New Clothes.- Lewis A. Coser, Publishers as Gatekeepers of Ideas.- Alistair McCleery.- The Trials and Travels of Lady Chatterley's Lover.- Archie L. Dick, Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books.- PART FIVE: Books, Propaganda and War.- Introduction.- Peter Buitenhuis, Setting up the Propaganda Machine.- Jane Potter, For Country, Conscience and Commerce.- Valerie Holman, Publishing and the State.- Joe Pearson, Books for the Forces.- John B. Hench, The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946.- PART SIX: Colonial and Postcolonial Print Culture.- Introduction.- Pascale Casanova, World Literary Space.- Robert Fraser, School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste.- Henry Chakaya, Kenyan Publishing: Independence and Dependence.- Graham Huggan, African Literature/Postcolonial Exotic.- James Currey, Africa Writes Back.- PART SEVEN: Women and Print Culture.- Introduction.- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own.- Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South.- Simone Murray, Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics.- Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Rumsha Shahzad, She Needs a Website of Her Own: The 'Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing.- PART EIGHT: Literary Prize Culture.- Introduction.- Richard Todd, Literary Prizes and the Media.- Tom Maschler, How It All Began: The Man Booker Prize.- Claire Squires, Genre in the Marketplace.- James English, Scandalous Currency.- PART NINE: Globalisation and the Book.- Introduction.- André Schiffrin, The Future of Publishing.- Walter Bgoya, The Effects of Globalisation in Africa.- Angus Phillips, The Global Book.- Suman Gupta, Globalisation and Literature.- Sarah Brouillette.- The Global Literary Field and Market Postcolonialism.