Broschiertes Buch

Print Cultures

A Reader in Theory and Practice

Herausgegeben: Davis, Caroline

Beschreibung

This reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts on twentieth and twenty-first century print culture yet compiled. Illuminating the networks and processes that have shaped reading, writing and publishing, the selected extracts also examine the effect of printed and digital texts on society. Featuring a general introduction to contemporary print culture and publishing studies, the volume includes 42 influential and innovative pieces of writing, arranged around themes such as authorship, women and print culture, colonial and postcolonial publishing and globalisation.

Offering a concise survey of critical work, this volume is an essential companion for students of Literature or Publishing with an interest in the history of the book.

Autor

Caroline Davis is senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, where she teaches print culture, book history and publishing studies. She is the author of Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers (Palgrave, 2013) and the co-editor of The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (Palgrave, 2015). Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Book History. She previously worked at Oxford University Press and Oxford University Centre for Humanities Computing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-28091-5
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780230280915
• ISBN-10: 0230280919
• Artikelnr.: 54869763