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Editing Fiction
Three Case Studies from Post-war Australia
Av Alice Grundy
Häftad, 2022
279 kr
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Editing Fiction considers the collaborative efforts of literary production as well as editorial practice in its own right, using case studies by Australian novelists Jessica Anderson, Thea Astley and Ruth Park. An emphasis on collaboration is necessary because literary criticism often takes books …
The Trade in Rare Books and Manuscripts between Britain and America c. 1890-1929
Av Danielle Magnusson, Laura Cleaver
Häftad, 2022
245 kr
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This Element examines the trade in rare books and manuscripts between Britain and America during a period known as the 'Golden Age' of collecting. Through analysis of contemporary press reports, personal correspondence, trade publications and sales records, this study contrasts American and British …
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines
Av Jodi McAlister, Claire Parnell m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
366 kr
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The romance publishing landscape in the Philippines is vast and complex, characterised by entangled industrial players, diverse kinds of texts, and siloed audiences. This Element maps the large, multilayered, and highly productive sector of the Filipino publishing industry. It explores the distinct …
International Bestsellers and the Online Reconfiguring of National Identity
Av Rachel Noorda, Millicent Weber m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
279 kr
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International bestsellers are the ideal sites for examining the complicated relationship between literary culture and national identity. Despite the transnational turns in both literary studies and book history, place is still an important configurer of twenty-first-century book reception. Books …
Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2022
279 kr
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This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts …
Simulating Antiquity in Boys' Adventure Fiction
Maps and Ink Stains
Häftad, 2022
279 kr
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A genre that glorifies brutish masculinity and late Victorian imperialism, boys' 'lost world' adventure fiction has traditionally been studied for its politically problematic content. While attuned to these concerns, this Element approaches the genre from a different angle, viewing adventure …
Reading Spaces in Modern Japan
The Evolution of Sites and Practices of Reading
Häftad, 2023
279 kr
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This study provides an accessible overview of the range of reading spaces in modern Japan, and the evolution thereof from a historical perspective. After setting the scene in a short introduction, it examines the development of Kanda-Jinbōchō, the area of Tokyo that has remained for a century the …
Scholarly Editing in Perspective
Häftad, 2025
279 kr
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Scholarly Editing in Perspective offers a critical reflection on the theory and methods of textual editing, as a contribution to a wider, comparative understanding of editorial practice. The analysis, written in a cogent, concise and accessible manner, offers an insight into the …
Publishing in a Medieval Monastery
The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg
Häftad, 2023
328 kr
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This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143-78). Frowin was the first abbot of Engelberg whose book provision policy relied …
Women and Letterpress Printing 1920-2020
Gendered Impressions
Häftad, 2022
279 kr
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This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. Drawing on examples from modernist writer/printers of the 1920s to literary book artists of the early 21st, it offers a way of thinking about the …
Bot-mimicry in Digital Literary Culture
Imitating Imitative Software
Häftad, 2024
279 kr
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This Element traverses the concept and practice of bot mimicry, defined as the imitation of imitative software, specifically the practice of writing in the style of social bots. Working as both an inquiry into and an extended definition of the concept, the Element argues that bot mimicry engenders …
Authorship and Publishing in the Humanities
Häftad, 2023
366 kr
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What is the point of publishing in the humanities? This Element provides an answer to this question. It builds on a unique set of quantitative and qualitative data to understand why humanities scholars publish. It looks at both basic characteristics such as publication numbers, formats, and …
White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines the field. This Element argues that contemporary book culture is structured by practice that operates according to a White taste logic. By applying the …
The Hroswitha Club and the Impact of Women Book Collectors
Av Kate Ozment
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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The Hroswitha Club was a group of women book collectors who met from 1944-2004 in the Eastern United States. Despite the fame of individual members like Henrietta Bartlett or Mary Hyde Eccles, there is no sustained study of the Club's work and legacy. This Element makes this history broadly …
Space as Language
The Properties of Typographic Space
Av Will Hill
Häftad, 2023
228 kr
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This Element examines the function and significance of typographic space. It considers in turn the space within letters, the space between letters, the space between lines, and the margin space surrounding the text-block, to develop the hypothesis that viewed collectively these constitute a …
Innovations in Digital Comics
A Popular Revolution
Häftad, 2024
243 kr
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The success of popular webcomics (comics produced and read entirely digitally) is the greatest revolution in the comics medium of the last two decades. Webcomics exploit a socio-technical convergence between digital platforms and participatory cultures, enabling global authors to work together with …
Selling Books with Algorithms
Häftad, 2024
279 kr
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In 1997 Amazon started as a small online bookseller. It is now the largest bookseller in the US and one of the largest companies in the world, due, in part, to its implementation of algorithms and access to user data. This Element explains how these algorithms work, and specifically how they …
Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice
Making Oxford University Voltaire
Av Dan Barker, Nicholas Cronk m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
254 kr
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Scholarly editions in print have long been central to literary studies, produced according to well-established methodologies. In recent decades, digital scholarly editions have gained prominence, with some publishers digitising existing print editions and others creating born-digital resources. The …
The People of Print
Seventeenth-Century England
Av Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
338 kr
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This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a …
Communicating the News in Early Modern Europe
Av Jenni Hyde, Massimo Rospocher m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
250 kr
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This history of early modern news focuses on news itself rather than specific material forms. Centering on movement through different media, time, and place, it makes the case for a truly comparative, pan-European history of news. After the Introduction, the second section, News Moves, explores how …
East Asian Voices in Anglophone Children's Picture Books
Av Loli Kim, Jieun Kiaer
Häftad, 2026
254 kr
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East Asian voices have long been marginalised in Western literature, though recent global waves of East Asian popular culture have begun to shift the landscape. Among the newest entrants to this global phenomenon are children's picture books - an emerging yet potent force with unparalleled …
Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719-1722
Av Sandro Jung
Häftad, 2025
274 kr
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Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic interpretations of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Unlike earlier accounts, it takes into account not only the copyright …
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar
Häftad, 2024
279 kr
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This Element looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities. The first section studies the bazaar's spatiality - its location, relocation, and respatialisation. …
China's eBook Evolution
Disruptive Models and Emerging Book Cultures
Av Xiang Ren
Häftad, 2024
279 kr
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This Element explores the changing landscape of eBook businesses and cultures in China in the past two decades and examines how disruptive innovation and the platform economy have transformed one of the world's largest book markets. Through an evolutionary perspective, this Element documents and …
Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Av Karen Wade
Häftad, 2025
279 kr
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Mudie's Select Library was a major nineteenth-century literary institution. Substantially larger than its competitors, the library leveraged regional and global distribution networks and close commercial ties with publishers which allowed it to maintain a key position within the British publishing …
Penguins on the Couch
Penguin Books and the Psychologization of Britain, c.1945-c.1980
Av Gavin Miller
Häftad, 2026
250 kr
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Penguin Books' extensive and affordable non-fiction list brought psychological ideas to a mass-market British readership. Even modestly successful titles sold thousands of copies per annum, while best sellers could sell hundreds of thousands over their lifetime. Covering a period from the mid-1940s …
The Form and Theory of Literary Doodling
Av Jeremiah R. Mercurio, Daniel Gabelman
Häftad, 2025
274 kr
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This Element investigates the phenomenon of literary doodling-the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity. The first part focuses on defining the form and structure of doodles, comparing and contrasting them with adjacent genres such …
Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Häftad, 2025
279 kr
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This Element first sets the history of printing in Japan in its East Asian context, showing how developments in China, Korea and elsewhere had an impact upon Japan. It then undertakes a re-examination of printing in seventeenth-century Japan and in particular explores the reasons why Japanese …
Inclusive Publishing and the Quest for Reading Equity
Häftad, 2025
249 kr
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Despite unprecedented opportunities to publish content in accessible formats, most books remain inaccessible to people with print disability. Technological advances and new legal frameworks are creating a transition toward inclusive publishing practices, but systemic barriers continue to limit …
Unprinted
Publication Beyond the Press
Av Daria Kohler, Daniel Wakelin m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
250 kr
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This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity. This decentres print as the means for understanding publication; instead, publication is seen as an …
