Fiction and the fiction industry
This topical, lively and wide-ranging book examines the material conditions under which the contemporary English novel is produced and consumed. Its starting point is the general economic emergency which showed up these conditions with unusual clarity in the early 1970s. The first section of the boo...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Bloomsbury Publishing
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | Bloomsbury academic collections : English Literary Criticism
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| Zusammenfassung: | This topical, lively and wide-ranging book examines the material conditions under which the contemporary English novel is produced and consumed. Its starting point is the general economic emergency which showed up these conditions with unusual clarity in the early 1970s. The first section of the book, 'Crisis and Change', considers the changing patterns of institutional book-purchase, inflation and novel-production, the 'Americanisation' of the British book trade, and the present state of fiction reviewing. The second section, 'State Remedies', surveys such interventions, and failed interventi |
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| Beschreibung: | Erscheinungsjahr der Druckausgabe 2013 A Salary for Authors; 7 The Arts Council: Subsidy for the Author; 8 Campus Writers; TRENDS, MAINLY AMERICAN; 9 Paperback Revolutions; 10 Packaged Literature: Book Clubs and Genre; 11 Independent Publishing; 12 The Telenovel; Postscript Cover; Contents; Introduction; CRISIS AND CHANGE; 1 Fiction and the 1973-6 Library Crisis; 2 Fiction in a Siege Economy; 3 The American Future of British Fiction; 4 Ragtime, A Novel for Our Times; 5 The Reviewing Establishment; STATE REMEDIES; 6 Public Lending Right |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 231 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781472554055 |