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Part One Publishing: Theory and Practice |
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2 The Trials of a Publisher |
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3 The Market of Symbolic Goods |
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17 | (14) |
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4 Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation |
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31 | (5) |
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36 | (9) |
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45 | (6) |
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7 The Digital Context and Challenge |
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51 | (8) |
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59 | (30) |
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8 Agents and the Field of Print Culture |
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63 | (4) |
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9 Disembodied Images: Authors, Authorship and Celebrity |
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67 | (4) |
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10 `What is an Author?' Contemporary Publishing Discourse and the Author Figure |
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71 | (7) |
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11 Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era |
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78 | (5) |
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12 Reconfiguring the Author |
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83 | (6) |
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Part Three Readership and the Literary Marketplace |
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89 | (26) |
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93 | (9) |
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14 A Publisher Looks at Booksellers |
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102 | (4) |
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15 The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Professional-Managerial Class and the Exercise of Authority in the Literary Field |
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106 | (7) |
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113 | (2) |
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Part Four Censorship and Print Culture |
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17 The Censor's New Clothes |
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117 | (9) |
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18 Publishers as Gatekeepers of Ideas |
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126 | (7) |
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19 The Trials and Travels of Lady Chatterley's Lover |
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133 | (9) |
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20 Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books |
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142 | (9) |
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Part Five Books, Propaganda and War |
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151 | (36) |
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21 Setting up the Propaganda Machine |
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155 | (6) |
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22 For Country, Conscience & Commerce: Publishers & Publishing, 1914-18 |
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161 | (6) |
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23 Publishing and the State: `Books of Propaganda Value' |
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167 | (6) |
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173 | (4) |
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25 The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946 |
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177 | (10) |
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Part Six Colonial and Postcolonial Print Culture |
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187 | (36) |
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191 | (4) |
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27 School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste |
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195 | (8) |
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28 Kenyan Publishing: Independence and Dependence |
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203 | (7) |
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29 African Literature/Anthropological Exotic |
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210 | (7) |
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30 Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series - A Publisher's Memoir |
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217 | (6) |
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Part Seven Women and Print Culture |
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223 | (26) |
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225 | (5) |
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32 Feminist Publishing in the South |
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230 | (5) |
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33 `Books with Bite': Virago Press and the Politics of Feminist Conversion |
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235 | (8) |
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34 She Needs a Website of Her Own: The `Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing |
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243 | (6) |
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Part Eight Literary Prize Culture |
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249 | (18) |
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35 Literary Prizes and the Media |
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251 | (3) |
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254 | (2) |
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37 Genre in the Marketplace |
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256 | (4) |
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260 | (7) |
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Part Nine Globalisation and the Book |
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267 | (44) |
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39 The Future of Publishing |
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271 | (5) |
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40 The Effect of Globalisation in Africa and the Choice of Language in Publishing |
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276 | (8) |
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284 | (8) |
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42 The Globalization of Literature |
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292 | (9) |
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43 The Global Literary Field and Market Postcolonialism |
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301 | (10) |
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Works Cited |
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311 | (6) |
Notes |
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317 | (34) |
Index |
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