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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437627103321

Titolo

The Contemporary Small Press : Making Publishing Visible / / edited by Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska, Leigh Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-48784-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 281 p. 25 illus., 15 illus. in color.)

Collana

New Directions in Book History, , 2634-6125

Disciplina

070.50941

Soggetti

Books - History

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Literature and technology

Mass media and literature

Printing

Publishers and publishing

History of the Book

Contemporary Literature

Literature and Technology

Printing and Publishing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Making Publishing Visible, Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska and Leigh Wilson -- 2. ‘Hand & Soul’: The Fin de Siècle Sociopoetics of Way & Williams and the Auvergne Press, Craig Saper -- 3. From Poet to Publisher: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks by Design, Kinohi Nishikawa -- 4. The Matter of the ‘Small’ in Small-Press Publishing, Nick Thoburn -- 5. The Gentrification of the Small Press: CLMP and the DIY Tradition, Kaplan Harris -- 6. Rhetorics of Authenticity and Professionalization: Problems in Early 21st Century Small Press Publishing, Matvei Yankelevich -- 7. The Publishing Self: The Praxis of Self-publishing in a Mediatised Era, Nick Thurston -- 8. Small Presses and their Reader Communities, Rosamund Davies -- 9. Leading the way: women-led small presses of inclusive youth literature, Melanie



Ramdarshan Bold -- 10. The Passion and Pragmatism of the Small Publisher, Claire Squires -- 11. Acts of Judgment and the Small Press: Learning from F.R. Leavis, Leigh Wilson -- 12. The Small Press, Avant-Garde Aesthetics and the Politics of Disidentification, Georgina Colby.

Sommario/riassunto

The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible addresses the contemporary literary small press in the US and UK from the perspective of a range of disciplines. Covering numerous aspects of small press publishing—poetry and fiction, children’s publishing, the importance of ethical commitments, the relation to the mainstream, the attitudes of those working for presses, the role of the state in supporting presses—scholars from literary criticism, the sociology of literature and publishing studies demonstrate how a variety of approaches and methods are needed to fully understand the contemporary small press and its significance for literary studies and for broader literary culture.