Print Cultures
A Reader in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 23. July 2019
362 pages
978-1-350-31003-2 (ISBN)
Description
This reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts on twentieth and twenty-first century print culture yet compiled. Illuminating the networks and processes that have shaped reading, writing and publishing, the selected extracts also examine the effect of printed and digital texts on society. Featuring a general introduction to contemporary print culture and publishing studies, the volume includes 42 influential and innovative pieces of writing, arranged around themes such as authorship, women and print culture, colonial and postcolonial publishing and globalisation.
Offering a concise survey of critical work, this volume is an essential companion for students of literature or publishing with an interest in the history of the book.
Offering a concise survey of critical work, this volume is an essential companion for students of literature or publishing with an interest in the history of the book.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-350-31003-2 (9781350310032)
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Person
Caroline Davis is senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, where she teaches print culture, book history and publishing studies. She is the author of Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers (Palgrave, 2013) and the co-editor of The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (Palgrave, 2015). Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Book History. She previously worked at Oxford University Press and Oxford University Centre for Humanities Computing.
Content
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Lynne Spender, Intruders on the Rights of Men: Women's Unpublished Heritage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.
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.
