Print Cultures

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.

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.

• PART ONE: Publishing Theory and PracticeIntroductionStanley Unwin, The Truth About a PublisherPierre Bourdieu, The Market of Symbolic GoodsGérard Genette, Introduction to Paratexts: Thresholds of InterpretationLynne Spender, Intruders on the Rights of Men: Women's Unpublished HeritageJohn Thompson, Introduction to Merchants of CultureMichael Bhaskar, The Digital Context and ChallengePART TWO: AuthorshipIntroductionMary Ann Gillies, Agents and the Field of Print CultureJoe Moran, Disembodied Images: Authors, Authorship and CelebrityJuliet Gardiner, 'What is an Author': Contemporary Publishing Discourse and the Author FigureLaura Dietz, Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital EraGeorge Landow, Reconfiguring the AuthorPART THREE: Readers and the Literary MarketplaceIntroductionQ. D. Leavis, The Book MarketGeoffrey Faber, A Publisher Looks at BooksellersJanice Radway, The Scandal of the MiddlebrowClive Bloom, How the British ReadPART FOUR: Censorship and Print CultureIntroductionSue Curry Jansen, The Censor's New ClothesLewis A. Coser, Publishers as Gatekeepers of IdeasAlistair McCleeryThe Trials and Travels of Lady Chatterley's LoverArchie L. Dick, Combating Censorship and Making Space for BooksPART FIVE: Books, Propaganda and WarIntroductionPeter Buitenhuis, Setting up the Propaganda MachineJane Potter, For Country, Conscience and CommerceValerie Holman, Publishing and the StateJoe Pearson, Books for the ForcesJohn B. Hench, The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946PART SIX: Colonial and Postcolonial Print CultureIntroductionPascale Casanova, World Literary SpaceRobert Fraser, School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial TasteHenry Chakaya, Kenyan Publishing: Independence and DependenceGraham Huggan, African Literature/Postcolonial ExoticJames Currey, Africa Writes BackPART SEVEN: Women and Print CultureIntroductionVirginia Woolf, A Room of One's OwnUrvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the SouthSimone Murray, Feminist Presses and Publishing PoliticsMohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Rumsha Shahzad, She Needs a Website of Her Own: The 'Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary PublishingPART EIGHT: Literary Prize CultureIntroductionRichard Todd, Literary Prizes and the MediaTom Maschler, How It All Began: The Man Booker PrizeClaire Squires, Genre in the MarketplaceJames English, Scandalous CurrencyPART NINE: Globalisation and the BookIntroductionAndré Schiffrin, The Future of PublishingWalter Bgoya, The Effects of Globalisation in AfricaAngus Phillips, The Global BookSuman Gupta, Globalisation and LiteratureSarah BrouilletteThe Global Literary Field and Market Postcolonialism.