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Print Cultures Caroline Davis

Print Cultures By Caroline Davis

Print Cultures by Caroline Davis


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Print Cultures: A Reader in Theory and Practice by Caroline Davis

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.

Print Cultures Reviews

This reader is the definitive introduction to the growing field of Publishing. Students new to the field or searching for a context for their own research will find everything they need here. * Helen Marshall, Anglia Ruskin University, UK *
Print Cultures is a bold and generous gift to the field. Readers will find seminal essays juxtaposed with surprises in each of the nine carefully curated sections, making it ideal for the classroom. I look forward to discussing this magnificent compilation with our graduate students for years to come, and the future of the book is brighter because of it. * Kyle Schlesinger, University of Houston-Victoria, USA *

About Caroline Davis

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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Publishing Theory and Practice Introduction Stanley Unwin, The Truth About a Publisher Pierre Bourdieu, The Market of Symbolic Goods Gerard 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 Andre 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.

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NPB9780230280915
9780230280915
0230280919
Print Cultures: A Reader in Theory and Practice by Caroline Davis
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20190802
362
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