What is an author? What impact does the marketplace have on the production of texts? What place does reviewing have on the construction of a text? What role do little magazines play in the dissemination and institutionalization of writers, texts and artistic movements? What is the impact of book prizes? This module is an introduction to some key debates in book history. We will treat the book as a material artefact that circulates within institutional frameworks of publishing, the academy, and the marketplace.
Nicolas Barker, Form and Meaning in the History of the Book . The British Library Studies in the History of the Book (British Library Publishing, 2002).
Eric de Bellaigue, British Book Publishing as a Business since the 1960s (British Library Publishing, 2004)
P. Desan, P. P. Ferguson and W. Griswold (eds.), Literature and Social Practice (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (eds) The Book History Reader ( London; New York: Routledge, 2002.)
M. Foucault, ‘What is an Author?’ (1969) translated and reprinted in D. Lodge (ed.) Modern Criticism and Theory (London & New York: Longman, 1988).
Wolfgang.Görtschacher, Little Magazine Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-1993 (University of Salzburg Press, Salzburg, 1993)
Wolfgang Görtschacher, Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene (University of Salzburg Press, Salzburg, 2000)
Wendy Griswold, Bearing Witness (Princeton UP, 2000).
Peter D McDonald, British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Jerome J., McGann, The Textual Condition (Princeton: University Press, 1991).
S. Murray , Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics. Sterling VA: Pluto Press (2004).
Robin Myers and Michael Harris, Journeys Through the Market (British Library Publishing, 2000)
Jonathan Rose, The Iintellectual Llife of the British Working Classes (Yale UP, 2001)
Geoffrey Soar Little Magazines and How They Got That Way (Royal Festival Hall, London, 1990).
Judy Simons and Kate Fullbrook, (eds.). Writing: A Woman’s business: Women, Writing and the marketplace. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998).
Ian,Willison, Warwick Gould, and Warren Chernaik (eds). Modernist writers and the marketplace (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.)
Martha Woodmansee, The Author, Art, and the Market (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi, eds. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994).
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