Overview
- Demonstrates the increasing importance of small presses after the economic crash of 2007-2008
- Illustrates the impact of small press publishing on literary studies
- Unites literary sociology and studies of the history of the book with textual approaches
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The Contemporary Small Press is a rich collection of essays that illustrates the historical and current significance of the small press. It will appeal not only to researchers and publishers, but to anyone willing to explore the topic.” (Marcinmark, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, Vol. 60, 2023)
“Each essay represents an interesting contribution to publishing and/or small-press Studies … . the volume’s introduction makes a valiant and broadly successful effort to present the industry status quo, plus an overview of small-press scholarship. It provides a valuable analysis, as will individual essays tied to readers’ interests.” (Jodie Lea Martire, Publishing Research Quarterly, September 1, 2023)
“The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible is essential reading for anyone interested in the Anglo-American publishing industry of the past fifty years. At a time when conglomerates are dominating the industry, small presses offer an alternative model of development. The book shows how these enterprising publishers have carved a niche for themselves in relation to the mainstream firms. This is a powerful story of survival, of creativity and ingenuity at a time of rapid change and digital disruptions.” (Lise Jaillant, Lecturer of English, Loughborough University, UK)“Anyone who has been paying close attention to contemporary literary culture will have noticed the exceptional rise to prominence of the small press as a counterbalance to the ever-narrowing output of the multinational publishing conglomerate. What we have lacked until now is a book like this one, which ably grasps the phenomenon of the small press without reducing its multiplicity and complexity. In the diversity of its methods and fascinating wealth of examples it offers to our scrutiny, this collection of essays ably advances the study of the institutions of recent and contemporary literature in new and exciting directions.” (Mark McGurl, Albert Guérard Professor of Literature, Stanford University, USA, and author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (2011))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Georgina Colby is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.
Kaja Marczewska is a researcher, writer and Research Manager at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Leigh Wilson is Professor of English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Contemporary Small Press
Book Subtitle: Making Publishing Visible
Editors: Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska, Leigh Wilson
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48784-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48783-6Published: 05 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48786-7Published: 06 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48784-3Published: 04 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of the Book, Contemporary Literature, Literature and Technology/Media, Printing and Publishing