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  • av Stephen H. (Bath Spa University) Gregg
    198,-

    This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles. Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth century. An essential aspect of this Element is how it explores the socio-cultural and technological debates around the access to old books.

  • - Changing Perspectives in the Humanities
    av Ruth (Queen Mary University of London) Ahnert
    198,-

    This Element contends that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • av Beth (University of Melbourne) Driscoll
    198,-

    The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating book deals and building and maintaining international networks. This Element explores the production of bestsellers at the Fair, through an investigation involving three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017-2019).

  • - Academia and Children's Literature
    av Melissa M. Terras
    198,-

    How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children. Professors are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists who fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. The Element is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

  • - The Economics of Academic Bookselling
    av J. M. Hawker
    198,-

    Defines the academic bookshop, text, and market. Examines change drivers in worldwide markets. Draws on current research from commercial publishers and publishing interest groups. Includes quantitative and qualitative research data from academic booksellers. Argues that academic booksellers can lead a sustainable and equitable future for the academic text.

  • av Corinna (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz Norrick-Ruhl
    232,-

    In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like Book-of-the-Month Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, and shows that book clubs and book commerce are linked inextricably. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • av Eugene (Anglia Ruskin University Giddens
    198,-

    The Christmas book market has played an important role in the growth of children's literature. Starting with the eighteenth century and continuing to recent sales successes and picturebooks, Christmas Books for Children investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant part of the children's book market.

  • - Lands of High Adventure
    av Patrick (University of British Columbia Moran
    198,-

    This Element examines four key questions raised by the prospect of a fantasy canon: the way in which canon and genre influence each other; the overwhelming presence of Tolkien in any discussion of the classics of fantasy; the multi-media and transmedia nature of the field; and the push for a more inclusive and diverse canon.

  • - Conventions, Originality, Reproducibility
    av Kim (University of Queensland) Wilkins
    198,-

    Considering young adult fantasy (YA fantasy) texts alongside the way they are circulated and marketed, this Element aims to show that the YA fantasy genre is a dynamic formation that takes shape and reshapes itself responsively in a continuing process over time.

  • - Exploring a Complex Reading Experience
    av Lucia (Queens College Cedeira Serantes
    208,-

    This Element is founded upon research conducted with seventeen teens and young adults who identify themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and their overall reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community.

  • - Publishing in the Attention Economy
    av R. Lyle (Bangor University) Skains
    208,-

    Explores contemporary authorship via three key authorial roles: indie publisher, hybrid author, and fanfiction writer. Examines how digital and networked media allow writers to distribute their work directly to - and often in collaboration with - their readers. These writers tend to favor publishing platforms that generate attention capital.

  • - Medieval French Literature and Penguin Classics
    av Leah (University of Bristol) Tether
    208,-

    Demonstrates that rather than Penguin Classics' frequently cited 'general reader', a more academic market contributed to the success of these titles. Investigates the publication of medieval French literature on this list and shines a light on the drivers, motivations, negotiations and decision-making processes behind it.

  • - Publishing and Manuscript Culture
    av Jaakko (University of Helsinki) Tahkokallio
    208,-

    Contributes to the ongoing debate on what it meant to publish a book in manuscript. Offers case-studies of twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians. Argues that their contemporary success was a result of successfully conducted publishing activities. This Element is also available as Open Access.

  • - The Case of Scientific Romance
    av Adam (Royal Holloway Roberts
    198,-

    Through readings of key figures like H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, this Element argues that changes in publishing and distribution were crucial to the expansion of science fiction. Suitable for anybody interested in the reasons why science fiction went from being a niche variety of fantastical adventure into the global culture it is today.

  • - Balancing Fan Agency and Corporate Control
    av Marianne (Kent State University Martens
    198,-

    Harry Potter fans contribute their immaterial and affective labor in multiple arenas. Fan participation in the Harry Potter universe has contributed to its success. Outlines the context and theoretical frameworks that support an analysis of the fan experience and examines tensions between fans and Warner Bros.

  • - African Literature and the Politics of Location
    av Madhu (University of Bristol) Krishnan
    198,-

    This Element is for anyone interested in the processes of canon-formation, world literatures in general and African literature in particular. It offers a fresh and exciting perspective on canon-formation and contestation that draws on original archival and field research.

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