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Book SynopsisThese letters offer invaluable insights into Robert Giroux 's publishing process that brought some of Thomas Merton's most important books to his readers.Trade Review"This volume provides Thomas Merton readers with a unique perspective on his development as a published author and a deepened appreciation of Robert Giroux's role in fostering that development. The book is both a lively and enjoyable read and a significant resource for students and scholars researching various aspects of Merton's prolific writing career. It will lead to new perspectives on and to a more nuanced understanding of the development of Merton's wide-ranging interests in monastic life and religious renewal, in social and political issues, in interreligious dialogue and literary criticism, and in numerous other fields." —Patrick F. O'Connell, editor of Thomas Merton: Selected Essays"The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton is an important historic record of the emergence and development of one of the great spiritual writers of the twentieth century and of his long friendship and working relationship with one of the great editors of the time. In these letters, carefully and unobtrusively edited and annotated by Patrick Samway, S.J., we see the ups and downs of Merton’s literary affairs against the background of the rapid changes taking place both in the church and in the world during these years. With the advent of email and the demise of the art of letter writing, this book is a testament to a fast disappearing era and the immense value to be found in the literary and historical records contained in such exchanges." —Paul M. Pearson, director, Thomas Merton Center“Robert Giroux, a great editor and publisher, was also a great friend, and Thomas Merton's correspondence with him—steady, tight in focus, rich in detail, frankly affectionate—makes clear how fully editing and publishing, for Giroux, was an act of friendship. That is no surprise. The surprise is in seeing, through these letters, how deeply Merton's vast and various body of work was grounded in friendship—in the desire to share all that he had come to know with the people he loved.” —Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own"Giroux and Fr. Merton first met when both were students at Columbia University in the late 1930s. This volume of their letters begins with one from Giroux dated March 8, 1948, as the manuscript of Fr. Merton’s autobiography, “The Seven Storey Mountain,” was being revised and prepared for publication. At this time, Giroux was Fr. Merton’s editor at Harcourt, Brace & Co., a major New York publishing house. This book would go on to become a mega-bestseller and make Fr. Merton one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. Later in life, he would express regret that his autobiography included a kind of naive piety and a romanticized portrayal of monastic life. Still, “The Seven Storey Mountain” remains a classic that has never been out of print. . . . Fr. Samway’s introduction, footnotes and epilogue enrich the book beautifully." —The Compass"The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton as compiled and edited by the Jesuit scholar Patrick Samway is a must read for the legions of Thomas Merton enthusiasts whose lives have been touched by his writings. This extraordinary collection of correspondence will also prove to be of immense interest to anyone with an interest in the publishing process that Merton engaged in with the editorial assistance and under the influence of Robert Giroux." —The Midwest Book Review"Few people were as influential in Merton’s writing career as Robert Giroux, classmate at Columbia, editor at two publishing houses, critic, confidant, and friend. . . . This collected correspondence runs from 1948 until Merton’s death in 1968 and discusses the business connected with the 15 volumes Merton and Giroux worked on. . . . In these letters, readers find the (justifiable) laments concerning censors and religious superiors reluctant to allow publication, often over remarkably trivial concerns. And publishers demonstrated that they could be as contentious, arbitrary, and capricious as any monastic censor. Several exchanges about racism, war, and literature—Giroux was editor for T. S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O’Connor, and Robert Lowell, among many others—allow readers to listen in on the wisdom of two astute observers of mid-20th century society." —Choice"The letters reveal a lifelong friendship between Merton and Giroux. . . . This is an important contribution to Merton scholarship—a new primary text in the Merton oeuvre. However, it is also a testimony to the brilliance of Robert Giroux, who emerges here as one of Merton's most important interpreters, critics, and collaborators." —American Catholic Studies“In many ways, the book primarily serves as an important literary and historic record, and will be of great interest to students and scholars looking in detail at Merton’s writing career and undertaking research on Merton.” —Modern Believing“Most helpful, and [indispensible] to the success of this book, are Samway’s annotations. . . . Who will read this book? Scholars of both Merton and Giroux. Merton fans. I think both groups will be pleased.” —Cistercian Studies Quarterly“The extensive professional and personal correspondence between Giroux and Merton is here presented with extremely helpful footnotes, biographical introduction, epilogue, and index.” —Commonweal

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Book SynopsisAt lasta writing and publishing book directed specifically for the mental health professional!Trade Review"Not only are his guidelines useful, but the tone takes throughout the book is relatable to anyone striving – yet too timid to pick up a pen and go. He is incredibly concise and well-organized throughout." -- International Journal of Psychotherapy"[Bill O’Hanlon] clearly has the skill and the know-how to write this book, and his presentation style feels familiar, connective as if he’s sitting beside you sharing his stories so you can share yours. . . . Bill’s background as both a therapist and a published writer affords him an insider’s view into the inner and outer work of writing and publishing. . . . [T]his is the first book targeting therapists written by a therapist, that addresses both writing, from conception to completion, and then on to publication, including creating your platform and reaching out to agents and traditional publishers." -- United States Association for Body Psychotherapy

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Book SynopsisBased on an extensive study of Jianyang imprints, genealogies of the leading families of printers, local histories, documents, and annotated catalogs and bibliographies, Printing for Profit is not only a history of commercial printing but also a wide-ranging study of the culture of the book in traditional China.

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Book SynopsisWhen Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi’s Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma.Trade ReviewReconstructing a little-known episode in Gandhi's life, Hofmeyr places surprising new findings about a particular historical figure in the service of a radically new theory of reading. This ambitious and deeply researched book holds lessons for historians, literary theorists, and anyone interested in reading practices. -- Leah Price, Harvard UniversityThe connection between Gandhi and the lively Indian Ocean world of small printing presses is something that has almost entirely escaped the attention of historians of South Asia and scholars of print culture so far. Hofmeyr explores this crucial space with rare vigor and sophistication. -- Ajay Skaria, University of MinnesotaGandhi was one of history's most avid experimenters. His most audacious forms of utopianism were often nothing more than simple and ingenious experiments. Hofmeyr tells the remarkable story, with elegance and great learning, of how Gandhi imagined a radically different world simply by attending to the potentialities of the printing press. Very few books on Gandhi capture the minutiae and horizons of his world with such riveting intelligence. -- Uday Mehta, City University of New YorkThis slim volume sparks more ideas than are typically generated by a book three times its size. -- John Wilson * Books & Culture *While he was a young attorney in South Africa at the outset of the 20th century, Gandhi was also 'a sometime proprietor' of the press that printed the influential Indian Opinion newspaper, whose production formed, for the burgeoning activist, a crash course in the synthesizing of public opinion, news, and progressive thought. Located on an ashram outside the port city of Durban, the press allowed Gandhi and his cohorts to explore 'new kinds of ethical selves,' bringing together as it did 'different castes, religions, languages, races, and genders.' In Hofmeyr's portrait, Gandhi emerges as a surprisingly keen publicist and media strategist, willing to buck the system (e.g., copyright laws) in the service of social change. She also offers a fascinating take on Gandhi's mode of 'contemplative reading,' one characterized by the merging of the text with a receptive mind via 'pausing and perseverance,' all with an aim of cumulative progress. Indeed, Gandhi read as he led. This thoughtful account is a compelling preview of the colonial subcontinent's development, as well as Gandhi's eventual role as peaceful emancipator of his own country. * Publishers Weekly *Gandhi's espousal of free reproduction of material and repudiation of copyright--consider this throwaway line: 'Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian'--and his theories of slow reading, in which readers ponder and memorize the text and 'labor' for the paper, will provide food for thought in an age of Internet reading. -- Ravi Shenoy * Library Journal *Deepens our understanding of Gandhi in South Africa by giving us a history of his International Printing Press...His sparse, unadorned, direct prose had much to do with his early training in writing for Indian Opinion...The book also reflects on various printed forms--the newspaper, the periodical, the pamphlet--and their significance in not just creating a print culture but also in forging a people and sustaining a movement. The most significant part of the work is a theory of reading that Hofmeyr discerns through her examination of Indian Opinion and the Hind Swaraj (1909). Can one actually create modes of writing (and printing) that, while located within the modern realm, can militate against modernity? She shows that Gandhi consciously tried to cultivate a style of writing that required slow, meditative reading; his purpose was to adjust the act of reading to unhurried bodily rhythms not subject to the fast pace that he considered the chief signifier of the industrial age. He even tried to slow down the process of printing by dispensing with the oil machine that ran the press and instead employed manual labour to run it. In this way, Hofmeyr's elucidation of the manner in which a satyagrahi reads illuminates our understanding of Gandhi's modes of writing and discoursing. -- Tridip Suhrud * The Caravan *Fascinating...Isabel Hofmeyr discusses and analyses the origin and nature of [periodicals published by Gandhi], focusing on Indian Opinion and Hind Swaraj, and shows how their specific nature reflected Gandhian thought. Of particular interest is Hofmeyr's slant towards Gandhi's views on reading, which resonates with our fragmented, frantic age. -- Sanjay Sipahimalani * Sunday Guardian *The author draws us easily into a history that is varied, interesting and little understood. And in understanding philosophers like Thoreau through Gandhiji, one revisits and is astounded by them once more. The book is a welcome addition to readings on the Mahatma. -- Mallika Sarabhai * Indian Express *Beginning in Durban, South Africa, in 1898, Mohandas Gandhi became the guiding hand of a printing press and the multilingual newspaper it produced, Indian Opinion. Hofmeyr provides an account at once charming and erudite of Gandhi's vision of printing and the press in relation to Phoenix, the ashram from which the press largely was operated. She also examines the press in relation to the wider satyagraha movement, Gandhi's unique understanding of the quest for truth, and to Gandhi's thinking about empire, nationalism, race, sovereignty, and self-rule. Gandhi first developed his ideas of satyagraha while working with and for the Indian community in South Africa, and much of his thinking was first communicated in the pages of Indian Opinion. Hofmeyr’s careful study of the literary character of the newspaper dispels the idea that the journalistic format was hurried and thus lacking in care. She provides ample evidence that Gandhi saw the paper as comprised of clippings and articles that needed to be read and reread, slowly and thoughtfully. This attempt to integrate many levels of Gandhi's activity will surprise and reward all readers. -- C. A. Colmo * Choice *Hofmeyr has produced a work so exquisitely engaging and so vitally relevant to our age that anyone who reads enough to be concerned about the future of reading should take up this riveting little book. -- Kapil Komireddi * Daily Beast *

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Book SynopsisDarnton explores some fascinating territory in the genre of histoire du livre and tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing.Trade ReviewPublishing history, as told by Professor Darnton, turns out to be much meatier and livelier than might be expected… [This book is] a major achievement of American scholarship and in the first rank of those which have been transforming our view of French history during the last twenty years. * New York Review of Books *Darnton’s book succeeds brilliantly in illuminating the nature of late eighteenth-century encyclopedism and its use of science, in tracing the history of the most important book of the century, in revealing the lives of printers, masters, publishers, and even, to some extent, readers. This is an extraordinary achievement and Darnton has produced a book that possesses all the qualities of a classic. The Encyclopédie deserves nothing less, and it has indeed found a historian worthy of its reputation. * Isis *The story [Darnton] has to tell is a fascinating one, teased from a complex and obscure documentation with great finesse, told with elegance, wit, and a novelist’s eye for detail, analyzed for its historical implications with clarity and insight. * Journal of Modern History *Table of Contents* I. Introduction: The Biography of a Book * II. The Genesis of a Speculation in Publishing * The Neuchatel Reprint Plan * From the Reprint to the Revised Edition * Joseph Duplain and His Quarto Encyclopedie * Publishing, Politics, and Panckoucke * From the Revised Edition to the Quarto * The Paris Conference of 1777 * The Basis of a Bonne Affaire * III. Juggling Editions * The "Second Edition" * The Origins of the "Third Edition" * Imbroglios * The Neuchatel Imprint * Opening Gambits of the Final Negotiations * Duel by Lettre Ostensible * The Last Turn of the Screw * The Contract * IV. Piracy and Trade War * Pirate Raids * The Octavo Publishers and Their Encyclopedie * The Origins of the Quarto--Octavo War * The Final Failure of Diplomacy * Open War * Pourparlers for Peace * A Drole de Paix * V. Bookmaking * Strains on the Production System * Procuring Paper * Copy * Recruiting Workers * Setting Wages * Pacing Work and Managing Labor * Printing: Technology and the Human Element * VI. Diffusion * Managerial Problems and Polemics * Marketing * Booksellers * Prices and Consumers * The Sales Pattern * Subscribers, A Case Study * Diffusion in France * Diffusion Outside France * Reading * VII. Settling Accounts * The Hidden Schism of 1778 * A Preliminary Reglement de Comples * The Feud Between Duplain and the STN * Marketing Maneuvers * The Perrin Affair * The Anatomy of a Swindle * The Final Confrontation in Lyons * Denouement * Epilogue * VIII. The Ultimate Encyclopedie * The Origins of the Encyclopedie Methodique * The Climactic Moment in Enlightenment Publishing * The Liegeois Settlement * Panckoucke's Conception of the Supreme Encyclopedie * Panckoucke as an Editor * The Authors of the Methodique * Two Generations of Encyclopedists * From Voltairianism to Professionalism * Launching the Biggest Book of the Century * IX. Encyclopedism, Capitalism, and Revolution * Panckoucke 's Folly * From Encyclopedism to Jacobinism * An Enlightenment Publisher in a Cultural Revolution * The Last of the Encyclopedists * X. Conclusion * The Production and Diffusion of Enlightenment * Enlightenment Publishing and the Spirit of Capitalism * The Encyclopedie and the State * The Cultural Revolution * Appendices * A. Contracts of the Encyclopedie Publishers, 1776--1780 * B. Subscriptions to the Quarto Encyclopedie * C. Incidence of Subscriptions in Major French Cities * D. Contributors to the Encyclopedie Methodique * Bibliographical Note * Index

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Book SynopsisLorenz Böninger tells the story of Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna, a major printer of Renaissance Italy. Niccolò's hitherto mysterious life and career provide unparalleled insight into the business of printing in its earliest years, illuminating the economic, legal, and intellectual forces that surrounded the publication and dissemination of texts.Trade ReviewA richly contextualized portrait of a premodern entrepreneur, one assuredly of interest to inquisitive business historians…[A] concise and diligent economic biography. -- Robert Fredona * Business History Review *Lorenz Böninger has undoubtedly performed an immense service for our understanding of the history of early printing in the cradle of the Renaissance. -- Neil Harris * The Library *An ambitious and successful effort to shed light on the social conditions, human networks, and labor practices that underpinned the earliest book production in one of the fifteenth century’s most dynamic—but also mercurial—centers. Building upon his numerous excellent essays and books on artisan culture and immigrant communities in Renaissance Florence, Böninger fills an extremely important lacuna in our knowledge of early Italian printing. -- Sean Roberts, author of Printing a Mediterranean WorldA tour de force of scholarship. Böninger has done a brilliant job of combining known and unknown documents with the literature on the pertinent literary, economic, social, and religious history to create the best and fullest history of Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and his world to date. -- John Monfasani, author of Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter I. French journalism and the Enlightenment: to 1756 Chapter II. The founding of the Journal encyclopédique: to 1756 Chapter III. Publication and problems: January 1756 to May 1759 Chapter IV. Suppression and re-establishment: May 1759 to January 1760 Chapter V. Rousseau in Bouillon: the first years, 1760 to 1767 Chapter VI. The establishment of the Société typographique: 1767 to 1772 Chapter VII. The 'Panckoucke edition' of the Encyclopédie: to February 1771 Chapter VIII. Rousseau and the Suppléments à l'Encyclopédie: 1771 to 1777 Chapter IX. Rousseau's last years: 1775 to 1785 Chapter X. The end of the Bouillon enterprises and their successors Chapter XI. The Journal encyclopédique Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future? This is the first major study of the book publishing industry in Britain and the United States for more than two decades. Thompson focuses on academic and higher education publishing and analyses the evolution of these sectors from 1980 to the present. He shows that each sector is characterized by its own distinctive logic' or dynamic of change, and that by reconstructing this logic we can understand the problems, challenges and opportunities faced by publishing firms today. He also shows that the digital revolution has had, and continues to have, a profound impact on the book publishing business, although Trade Review"As compelling as it is thorough ... a fascinating study of the contemporary academic publishing world in the UK and US." Times Higher Education Supplement "Likely to become the standard work in the field." British Journal of Educational Studies "This is undoubtedly the best book I have read about publishing ... It is the only book about publishing I have ever read where every statement rings true." Learned Publishing "Faultless, fascinating ... a must-read." Logos "A first-rate piece of scholarship." Academic Matters "A truly landmark study." Journal of Scholarly Publishing "[Those] working within academic/higher education publishing and librarianship have much to gain from this title; it is a valuable resource that explores how textbook publishing programmes in the UK and US in the early stages of the new millennium have evolved from the 1980s industry landscape. It also provides an opportunity to learn directly from senior executives within the academic publishing arena, who speak frankly, on the condition of anonymity." InPrint "Extremely useful to use as a potted history of a new area of interest for me." eLucidate "Thompson has soaked himself in publishing fact and lore. [His findings] are consistently reliable." Science "The world of academic publishing owes a great debt of gratitude to John Thompson ... this extensive and rigorous study is our best guide to the key issues of the day." Drake McFeely, Chairman and President of W. W. Norton & Company "A lucid, absorbing and accurate account of the university press world." Walter Lippincott, Director of Princeton University Press "Anyone wishing to know firsthand the issues that keep publishers awake at night would do well to start here. Anyone wishing to know where academic publishing is heading should look no further." William Sisler, Director of Harvard University Press "There is no other study of the publishing world, past or present, as comprehensive or fully researched as this." Professor Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego "A masterly study." Paul Richardson, Oxford Brookes UniversityTable of ContentsList of figures and tables. Preface. Introduction. Part I The Publishing Business. Publishing as an economic and cultural practice. The social structure of publishing fields. The publishing field since 1980. Part II The Field of Academic Publishing. Academic publishing under pressure. Academic publishing in transition (1): changing organizational cultures. Academic publishing in transition (2): list diversification and field migration. Academic publishing at the crossroads. Part III The Field of Higher Education Publishing. Higher education publishing in the US (1): the formation of the field. Higher education publishing in the US (2): the differentiation of the field. Higher education publishing in the UK. Globalization and localization in the UK field of higher education publishing. Part IV The Digital Revolution. The digital revolution and the publishing world. Academic publishing and the digital revolution. Higher education publishing and the digital revolution. The hidden revolution: reinventing the life cycle of the book. Conclusion. Appendix on research methods. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline. Among the most significant changes affecting journalism worldwide is the emergence of startup culture, as more and more journalists strike out on their own. In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge combine extensive global and comparative fieldwork. Through rich case studies of journalism startups around the world, they provide deep insight into the promises and pitfalls of media entrepreneurship. Ultimately, they aim to recognize new and emerging voices as legitimate participants in the discourse about what journalism is, can be and should be. A bold manifesto as well as an in-depth empirical study, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of journalism, media, communication, and related disciplines.Trade Review“In this insightful and engaging exploration of journalism startups and the people behind them, Deuze and Witschge break from narrow disciplinary boundaries in much the same way their subjects have broken from occupational ones. A must-read for anyone interested in the many forms contemporary journalism is taking, and the ‘rascals and rebels’ leading the way.”Jane Singer, City, University of London “To go beyond journalism, these scholars contest tacit assumptions about journalism and journalism studies, arguing that journalism has never been stable but is always becoming. Enter, then, this research on journalism startups, exemplary of how journalism as becoming is both praxis and ideology.”Nikki Usher, University of Illinois “In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge have seized upon the exciting energy felt among journalists who are working beyond the confines of traditional newsrooms.”Hyperallergic“Students, scholars, and professionals interested in journalism and entrepreneurship may find this book of interest.”Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrologue: The Beyond Journalism Project Introduction: What is Journalism (Studies)? 1 The Becoming of Journalism 2 Setting the Scene: Startups 3 Stories from the Heart 4 Making it Work 5 Stories that Matter Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated from the printers' mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers' representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes' Don Quixote or Shakespeare's plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, Trade Review'In these essays on the linguistic, typographical, social and cultural contexts of works by Shakespeare and Cervantes (among others), Roger Chartier shows once again his remarkable gifts for close reading, original observations, and the judicious and fruitful use of sociocultural theory.' Peter Burke, University of Cambridge 'These brilliant essays, by the world's foremost historian of the book, are an essential guide to the textual labyrinth in which we find ourselves, a perplexing maze in which manuscripts, printed books, and digital media vie for attention. By looking with singular learning and insight at early modern texts -- above all, works by Shakespeare and Cervantes -- Chartier enables us to understand not only the written traces that have been left by the past but also the traces that we will leave for the future.' Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University "Chartier’s essays provide an impressive model for just such a rigorous and sophisticated investigation of the reading and writing habits of the past..." Andrew G. Bonnell, University of QueenslandTable of ContentsPreface Part I: The Past in the Present 1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes 2. History: Reading Time 3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel Part II: What is a Book? 4. The Powers of Print 5. The Author’s Hand 6. Pauses and Pitches 7. Translation Part III: Texts and Meanings 8. Memory and Writing 9. Paratext and Preliminaries 10. Publishing Cervantes 11. Publishing Shakespeare 12. The Time of the Work

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Book SynopsisIn Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated from the printers' mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers' representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes' Don Quixote or Shakespeare's plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, Table of ContentsPreface Part I: The Past in the Present 1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes 2. History: Reading Time 3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel Part II: What is a Book? 4. The Powers of Print 5. The Author’s Hand 6. Pauses and Pitches 7. Translation Part III: Texts and Meanings 8. Memory and Writing 9. Paratext and Preliminaries 10. Publishing Cervantes 11. Publishing Shakespeare 12. The Time of the Work

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Book SynopsisThese are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures and technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think hard about the future of the books in the digital age.In this book - the first major study of trade publishing for more than 30 years - Thompson situates the current challenges facing the industry in an historical context, analysing the transformation of trade publishing in the United States and Britain since the 1960s. He gives a detailed account of how the world of trade publishing really works, dissecting the roles of publishers, agents and booksellers and showing how their practices are shaped by a field that has a distinctive structure and dynamic. Trade Review"The book is written in a style that is both elegant and easy to follow. There is a good balance between, on the one hand, dry numbers and figures and, on the other, colourful anecdote and informative metaphor. (...)Thompson’s own book is a comprehensive and rigorous history of trade publishing, which will lead both scholars, editors or people with a more general interest in publishing to think about books in new and more complex ways." The Kelvingrove ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition vi Preface to the First Edition viii Introduction 1 1 The Growth of the Retail Chains 26 2 The Rise of Literary Agents 59 3 The Emergence of Publishing Corporations 101 4 The Polarization of the Field 147 5 Big Books 188 6 Extreme Publishing 223 7 Shrinking Windows 238 8 The Wild West 292 9 The Digital Revolution 313 10 Trouble in the Trade 377 Conclusion: Facing an Uncertain Future 403 Appendix 1 Selected Imprints of the Main Publishing Corporations 410 Appendix 2 Note on Research Methods 415 Bibliography 425 Index 430

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Book SynopsisA timely study of freelance journalists’ working conditions and what is at stake for the future of journalism in precarious times.Trade Review" Writers' Rights will establish Cohen as the leading authority on freelance journalism for many years to come." Ursula Huws, University of Hertfordshire " Cohen has crafted a surprisingly hopeful, decidedly thorough treatise on shifting power structures and business ethics in a field that' s constantly reinventing itself." Publisher' s Weekly

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Book SynopsisExplains the basic steps, opportunities, and challenges to writing about American Indians.Trade Review"The text is exceptionally informative, and the author's extensive credentials add credibility to her voice. . . . Most impressive about this text is the author's clarity and information about confusing issues . . . This is both a handy guide and an informative text for readers and writers of Native studies."—ForeWord Magazine“Directed toward anyone writing about the Indigenous peoples of the United States, Choctaw scholar and writer Devon Abbot Mihesuah explains step by step how to do it. . . .This is as informative and interesting a book on writing as I have read in a long time. I recommend it unreservedly.”—Roundup Magazine

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Book SynopsisThe Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics is the first book of its kind to help readers make sense of it all and take control of their comics-making destinies. It provides would-be creators with a definitive guide to the tools needed for breaking into modern comics via self-publishing.Trade Review“Comfort and Adam have created a step-by-step guide filled with pro-level suggestions and helpful hints. If you are cooking up a self-published comic, you found the right recipe book. Bon appétit!” -—Jeff Smith, cartoonist of the self-published comics Bone, RASL, and Tuki Save the HumansTable of Contents1. Concept 5 What Are You Making and Why? 6 Research 10 Designing Characters 13 Designing Your Setting 21 2. Writing 27 Anatomy of a Comics Script 28 The Writing Process 31 The Writer’s Trinity: Plot, Story, and Character 36 How to Write Dialogue 46 Life as a Writer 49 3. Drawing 57 Anatomy of a Comics Page 58 The Drawing Process 62 Creating Interesting Pages 66 Bringing Characters to Life 76 Life as an Artist 82 4. Coloring 89 Introduction to Color Theory 90 Getting Comfortable with Photoshop 95 Coloring the Page 101 Special Effects 113 Life as a Colorist 125 5. Lettering 131 Understanding Lettering 132 Getting Comfortable with Illustrator 136 How to Letter a Page 141 Sound Effects 155 Life as a Letterer 167 6. Publishing 171 The Modern World of Publishing 172 Print Publishing 178 Digital Publishing 188 Distribution 194 7. Marketing 199 You Are Your Product 200 Targeting Your Audience 203 Mastering Your Web Presence 207 Conventioneering 214 Afterword 225 Thanks and Gratitude 227 The Adventure Continues Online 229 Index 230

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Book SynopsisDrawing on data sets and applying the theoretical tools of both sociology and economics, this book examines the substantive issues, challenges, and problems confronting the diverse and in many ways fragile book publishing industry in the United States, and presents the social and economic analysis of its state and future trends.Trade Review"Publishing has always played a substantive role in the dissemination of information. Thanks to The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century, we finally have a valuable introduction to the U.S. book publishing industry in our contemporary times. Greco has a reputation for raising tough questions and then carefully analyzing an enormous amount of data to clearly answer those questions. This book will not disappoint; it's an impressive achievement, and even with my 30 years in the industry, I learned a great deal."—Tom Radko, Editor, Journal of Scholarly Publishing"This book is a great resource for anyone trying to understand how the book industry works."—Jim Milliot, Director of Business and News, Publishers Weekly"This thorough and engrossing book explains everything about the book business in a way that will satisfy "insiders" and "civilians" alike. Greco, Rodríguez, and Wharton explain how corporate takeovers, changing habits, and a "bottom-line" mentality have influenced the way we make books—and buy them. Comprehensive and full of facts, The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century examines the power of publishing, and does its math. Anybody who has ever bought a book should now buy this one."—Sara Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsTHE CULTURE AND COMMERCE OF PUBLISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY TABLE OF CONTENTS ALBERT N. GRECO PROFESSOR OF MARKETING FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CLARA E. RODRIGUEZ PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ROBERT M. WHARTON PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Please contact: Albert N. Greco 183 South Queen Street Bergenfield, New Jersey 07621-2636 201-439-1839 angreco@aol.com FAX 201-384-7585 JANUARY 3, 2006 The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century TABLE OF CONTENTS TOC [2 typed page] INTRODUCTION [4 typed pages] PART I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE U.S. BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Chapter 1: Changes in the Book Publishing Industry 1945-2005 [77 pages] Chapter 2: Commercial and Scholarly Book Publishing [99 typed pages] Chapter 3: Organizational Choice in the U.S. Book Publishing Industry: Strategies for Domestic and Global Competitiveness [61 typed pages] Chapter 4: The Economics of Publishing and the Impact of Technology on Book Publishing [91 typed pages] Part II: PEOPLE IN BOOK PUBLISHING Chapter 5: Changing Demographics, producers, and Consumers in Book Publishing [32 typed pages] Chapter 6: People in Book Publishing: "I'm Glad I'm Not An Author" [42 pages] Part III: CHALLENGES CONFRONTING THE BOOK PUBLISHING IN THE 21st CENTURY Chapter 7: The Major Challenges Confronting Book Publishers and Authors [34 typed pages] BIBLIOGRAPHY [66 typed pages] INDEX [TBA typed pages]

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Book Synopsis"The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard UniversityTrade Review"The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading." * David D. Hall, Harvard University *"As befits a book about books as objects, The Pilgrim and the Bee adds aesthetic satisfactions to its intellectual pleasures. I suspect that many readers will relate to this beautifully illustrated book as puritan readers related to the devotional steady sellers, marking up Brown's rich array of examples and his provocative readings, and returning to them for further contemplation like the bee of Brown's apt title." * Journal of American History *"Brown's work genuinely advances the terms of scholarly debate by combining methodological innovation with a metacritical rigor that is as nuanced as it is compelling." * American Literature *"In this book Brown offers sustained, nuanced readings of devotional texts usually relegated to the role of context and provides fresh perspective on more frequently examined genres like jeremiads and elegies. . . . More than simply expanding the early American literary canon with the addition of a few steady sellers, Brown calls attention to the contingencies of the surviving archive and the politics of the canon that emerged from it." * Early American Literature *"The Pilgrim and the Bee is an absorbing work and a real contribution to the study of the material culture of the Puritans and how the religious practices of the community deeply informed their reading." * Rocky Mountain Review *""If you have even a passing interest in seeing what the history of the book looks like when it achieves intellectual maturity, then The Pilgrim and the Bee is certainly worth your time. . . . This important study has implications for a wide range of readers." * Common-place *Table of ContentsPreface: A Phenomenology of the Book Introduction: Toward a Reader-Based Literary History Chapter 1. The Presence of the Text Chapter 2. Devotional Steady Sellers and the Conduct of Reading Chapter 3. Ritual Fasting Chapter 4. Ritual Mourning Chapter 5. Race, Literacy, and the Eliot Mission Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThough the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them—least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly written study, Jeffrey Freedman examines one of the most important axes of the transnational book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the circulation of French books between France and the German-speaking lands. Focusing on the critical role of book dealers as cultural intermediaries, he follows French books through each stage of their journey—from the French-language printing shops where they were produced, to the wholesale book fairs in Leipzig, to retail book shops at locations scattered widely throughout Germany. At some of those locations, authorities reacted with alarm to the spread of French books, burning works of the radical French Enlightenment and punishing the booksTrade Review"Carefully reasoned and deeply researched . . . a welcome addition to the study of the myriad ways in which ideas have been carried in print across political, linguistic, and other barriers" * TLS *"An outstanding, vivid, fine-grained, minutely researched, and highly readable study that makes an indispensable contribution to our knowledge of the diffusion of the Enlightenment." * French Studies *"Anyone with any knowledge about eighteenth-century literary and cultural history will recognize the importance of this book. A study of this sort has long been needed not simply to extend our understanding of the French book in Germany but also to counterbalance and revise various national 'history of the book' series which focus on the national unit and precisely miss the importance of books as livres sans frontières." * James Raven, University of Essex *Table of ContentsNote on Terminology and Sources Introduction Chapter 1. Rite of Spring: The Leipzig Easter Fair and the Literary Marketplace Chapter 2. Whom to Trust? Insolvent Booksellers and the Problem of Credit Chapter 3. French Booksellers in the Reich Chapter 4. Demand Chapter 5. The Word of God in the Age of the Encyclopédie Chapter 6. Against the Current: Translating the Aufklärung Chapter 7. From Europe Française to Europe Révolutionnaire: The Career of Jean-Guillaume Virchaux Conclusion. What Were French Books Good For? Appendix A. STN Trade with Booksellers in Germany, 1770- Appendix B. The Folio Bible of 1773: Diffusion Appendix C. The Folio Bible of 1779: Prepublication Subscriptions Appendix D. The Bible in Germany: The Neuchâtel Folio of 1779 and the Bienne Octavo Appendix E. Diffusion of Sebaldus Nothanker in French Translation Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe single universal bit of advice that working journalists give students is learn to write well. Solid writing is the key to any successful and solid broadcast news operation. In Writing and Producing Television News, Second Edition author Eric Gormly uses contemporary news events as an engaging backdrop to teach students the fundamentals of writing news for television and cable. Author Gormly draws on his extensive background as a television journalist to explain how real newsrooms work. The text reviews basic grammar, introduces students to industry-specific terminology and the particular rules for TV newswriting, appraises the basics of a television news story, and reveals how television writing differs from writing for other media. The core of the book develops various story formats, and gives step-by-step instruction on how to transform basic information into properly scripted, solid stories. Included in this edition are the latest in script formattTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 Television News: An Introduction 3 2 Television Newswriting: A Different Style 11 3 A Brief Review of Grammar 17 4 Some General Rules for Television Newswriting 35 5 Usage 53 6 Approaching the Television News Story 69 7 Story Formats: Some Basics 101 8 The Voice Over: VO 137 9 Sound on Tape: SOT 165 10 The Voice Over/Sound Bite: VO/SOT 187 11 Putting the Formats Together 211 12 Interviewing: Conversation with a Goal 223 13 The Package 235 14 An Interview with Deborah Potter 271 15 The Live Shot 275 16 An Interview with Beverly White 285 17 Producing the Newscast 295 18 The Station and the Newsroom 321 19 A look Inside: WFAA-TV, Dallas 331 20 Finding a Job 365 Index 387

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Book SynopsisAs Garlock relates in the preface, "The quality of the research, reporting and writing of these unique features is stunning. No two are written exactly the same way. But they all hold to one constant: strong emotions and content-powerful, touching, frightening, harrowing journalism.Table of ContentsPreface. 1979 Mrs. Kelly's Monster (Jon Franklin, The Baltimore Evening Sun). 1980 Zepp's Last Stand (Madeline Blais, The Miami Herald). 1981 Death of a Playmate (Teresa Carpenter, The Village Voice). 1982 The Federal Beauracracy (Saul Pett, Associated Press). 1983 Toxic Shock (Nan Robertson, The New York Times). 1984 Making It Fly (Peter Rinearson, The Seattle Times). 1985 A Boy of Unusual Vision (Alice Steinbach, The Baltimore Sun). 1986 Life on the Land: An American Farm Family (John Camp, St. Paul Pioneer Press). 1987 How Super Are Our Supercarriers (Steve Twomey, The Philadelphia Inquirer). 1988. AIDS in the Heartland (Jacqui Banaszynski, St. Paul Pioneer Press). 1989 Being Black in South America (David Zucchino, The Philadelphia Inquirer). 1990 Adam & Megan (Dave Curtin, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph). 1991 A Gift Abandoned (Sheryl James, The St. Petersburg Times). 1992 Grady's Gift (Howell Raines, The New York times Magazine). 1993 The Stalking of Kristin (George Lardner Jr., The Washington Post). 1994 First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, The Mississippi Reclaims Its True Domain Cruel Flood: It Tore at Graves, and at Hearts (Isabel Wilkerson, The New York Times). 1995 Against All Odds. Class Struggle (Ron Suskind, The Wall Street Journal). 1996 All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University. Terror in Oklahoma City at Ground Zero. Where Alabama Inmates Fade into Old Age. A Killer's Only Confidant: The Man Who Caught Susan Smith. Another Battle of New Orleans: Mardi Gras (Rick Bragg, The New York Times). 1997 The Umpire's Sons (Lisa Pollak, The Baltimore Sun). 1998 Angels & Demons (Thomas French, St. Petersburg Times). 1999 Crime Scene: Beyond the Statistics, A Druggist Confronts the Reality of Robbery (Angelo B. Henderson, Wall Street Journal). 2000 Crossing Over (J. R. Moehringer, Los Angeles Times). 2001 The Boy Behind The Mask (Tom Hallman, Jr., The Oregonian). 2002 A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach (Barry Siegel, Los Angeles Times). 2003 Enrique's Journey (Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times). Acknowledgments.

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Book SynopsisOffers a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book. This study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'Prevailing Operating System' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique, and science.Trade ReviewA splendid addition to the now long list of Professor Sussman’s admirable books.---—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, IrvineHenry Sussman is an incisive, original, and thought-provoking scholar. As Around the Book: Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida eloquently demonstrates, he apprehends sensitively the extent to which Kafka, Benjamin and Derrida are exemplary readers of the detail and all its uncanny contiguities and pulses, and engages in taking his reader on a detailed tour of various texts pertaining to the identity of the book, and what it means to think about books, to reflect on their ontological status, and to get up close and personal with textual materiality. Sussman's book about books is not only refreshing, rigorous, marvellously original, it is also quite undeniably necessary.---—Julian Wolfreys, Loughborough UniversityEven the capacious orbit of the title Around the Book does spare justice to the wild epicycles by which the author’s reflections rim the limits of critical writing and the book form, from deconstruction to Chinese medicine, surrealism to systems theory, Kafka to the graphic novel. If Benjamin’s Arcades Project is a “vast print-medium website,” then Sussman’s own heady scroll through contemporary cultural registers plunges him with vertiginous learning from one cognitive “platform” and “standard operating system” to another--all in a rapt defense, in this his tenth venturesome book, of analytic “noise” in the theory systems of our new millennium.---—Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa

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Book SynopsisOffers a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book. This study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'Prevailing Operating System' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique, and science.Trade ReviewA splendid addition to the now long list of Professor Sussman’s admirable books.---—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, IrvineHenry Sussman is an incisive, original, and thought-provoking scholar. As Around the Book: Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida eloquently demonstrates, he apprehends sensitively the extent to which Kafka, Benjamin and Derrida are exemplary readers of the detail and all its uncanny contiguities and pulses, and engages in taking his reader on a detailed tour of various texts pertaining to the identity of the book, and what it means to think about books, to reflect on their ontological status, and to get up close and personal with textual materiality. Sussman's book about books is not only refreshing, rigorous, marvellously original, it is also quite undeniably necessary.---—Julian Wolfreys, Loughborough UniversityEven the capacious orbit of the title Around the Book does spare justice to the wild epicycles by which the author’s reflections rim the limits of critical writing and the book form, from deconstruction to Chinese medicine, surrealism to systems theory, Kafka to the graphic novel. If Benjamin’s Arcades Project is a “vast print-medium website,” then Sussman’s own heady scroll through contemporary cultural registers plunges him with vertiginous learning from one cognitive “platform” and “standard operating system” to another--all in a rapt defense, in this his tenth venturesome book, of analytic “noise” in the theory systems of our new millennium.---—Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa

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Book SynopsisTheir dispatches, which reported the war with the immediacy of real time, make up the core of this book.Trade ReviewSterne celebrates them, but without nostalgia... The correspondents' total iimmersion in their world imbues their reports with emotional dimensions. -- Michae Sragow Baltimore Sun 2009 More than the quality of the reporting itself, the reader will be struck by the changes in technology-driven communication over the span of nearly 70 years. -- Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2009 The quality of the narratives included here, and Sterne's historical comments on them, will cause readers to wonder why no other historian has taken up the subject in the last sixty-five years. -- Stacy Spaulding Jhistory, H-Net Reviews 2010

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Book SynopsisForeign correspondents played a crucial role in promoting the ideas and values of the Cold War. As they brought the foreign world to their Soviet and American readers, these journalists projected their own ideologies onto their reporting. In an age of mutual acrimony and closed borders, journalists were among the few individuals who crossed the Iron Curtain. Their reporting strongly influenced the ways that policy makers, pundits, and ordinary people came to understand the American or the Soviet other. In Cold War Correspondents, Dina Fainberg examines how Soviet and American journalists covered the rival superpower and how two distinctive sets of truth systems, professional practices, and political cultures shaped international reporting. Fainberg explores private and public interactions among multiple groups that shaped coverage of the Cold War adversary, including journalists and their sources, editors, news media executives, government officials, diplomats, American pundits, SoTrade ReviewIn this extraordinarily thorough and insightful study, Fainberg identifies the similar approaches and practices used by Soviet and U.S. foreign correspondents reporting from each other's countries during the Cold War.—Foreign AffairsThe research for this book is impressive.—Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction. A Battle of Words Part One. Spiers versus Liars, 1945-1953Chapter 1. Making "Soviet Restons"Chapter 2. The Heralds of TruthPart Two. Pens instead of Projectiles, 1953-1965Chapter 3. Overtake AmericaChapter 4. In Sputnik's ShadowPart Three. Your Fight Is Our Fight, 1965-1985Chapter 5. Notes from the Rotten WestChapter 6. Reports from the Backward East Part Four. A Moment of Truth? 1985-1991Chapter 7. Cold War Correspondents Confront Old and New Thinking 00 Conclusion. Us and ThemAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and ArchivesNotesBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government, the growth of higher education, the climate of the Cold War, globalization, and the development of multimedia and digital technologies influenced the patterns of consolidation and diversification established earlier. The thirty-three contributors to the volume explore the evolution of the publishing industry and the business of bookselling. The histories of government publishing, law and policy, the periodical press, literary criticism, and reading--in settings such as schools, libraries, book clubs, self-help programs, and collectors' societies--receive imaginative scrutiny as well. The Enduring Book demonstrates that the corporate consolidations of the last half-century have left space for the independent publisher, that multiplicity continues to define Amer

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Book SynopsisRecounting a forgotten episode in the Long Civil Rights Movement, this book analyzes how news reporting of forced deportations of Mexicans in the 1930s created representations of Mexican Americans that endure today.Trade ReviewTimely...the culmination of years of research on representations of Latino Americans in Texas. * American Journalism *[A] captivating study…They Came to Toil painstakingly demonstrates the role of the press in creating depictions of communities and thus shaping public memory. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *[Garza's] book is accessible, devoid of jargon, expertly organized, and amply sourced. The photographs are a powerful visual representation of repatriation. * Journal of American History *A well-researched microstudy that has as much to offer to students of history as it does to students of linguistics and journalism. * Journal of Arizona History *Garza unpacks the particularities of news framings, successfully connecting historical events with contemporary borderlands politics. * Western Historical Quarterly *An illuminating study of how media shapes American identity. * Pacific Historical Review *Garza's insightful and detailed analysis deconstructs and reveals several important angles of newspaper media representations of people of color and marginalized communities…They Came to Toil is an important contribution to Mexican-American Studies, Latin American Studies, and Media and Journalism Studies disciplines. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *A timely study...They Came to Toil is an impressive piece of scholarship that will benefit both historians and media scholars...Through her study, Garza reveals parallels between the Depression era and the past ten years of recordbreaking deportation numbers and increasingly visible nativism and white supremacy. While the book went to press only months after the election of Donald Trump, readers will now be better equipped to consider how media representations of border crossings, asylum seekers, and federal policy shape public discourse around people of Latinx descent and US policy. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *[They Came to Toil's] detailed news coverage from different points of view, gives a clear picture of attitudes toward immigrants in the midst of an economic collapse, a picture that is repeated to some degree during every U.S. economic recession...The detail of this book is certainly of value for anyone studying the Great Depression, whether from historical, economic, sociological or political viewpoint. * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. The Crisis: They Came to Toil . . . but They Could Not Stay 1. 1929: To Pave a Way through Hostile and Barren Lands 2. 1930: A Thousand Times Better Off with Mexican Labor 3. 1931: The Tragedy of the Repatriated 4. 1932–1933: A New Deal for American Pioneers 5. Conclusion and Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA rigorously researched study shows how Mexican organized crime enjoys the protection of government officials, and some media companies, while individual journalists and their allies try to safeguard themselves and those willing to expose corruption and cTrade ReviewA book filled with stories of horror—and of hope. * Texas Observer *A meticulously researched study…[Surviving Mexico] is made lively and moving by the many interviews with Mexican journalists and media owners who themselves tell the stories of the dangers and at times, the horrors, that working reporters routinely face in many parts of Mexico. * ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America *Urgently indispensable...Based on more than 160 interviews with journalists, activists, and academics across several regions of the country, González de Bustamante and Relly present a highly readable account of the myriad dangers faced by journalists in Mexico, the impact of trauma and violence on their lives, and how individuals and collectives have organized to meet the challenges of working in such a dangerous place. * Nieman Lab *Surviving Mexico is a much-needed book that offers a wide scope for understanding the endemic violence against Mexican journalists. It will be useful for scholars and journalists interested in understanding the harsh conditions that news workers have to constantly face when doing their jobs. The book’s central arguments and discussions are consistent with broader debates on media in the Global South, where emergent democracies struggle with post-authoritarianisms and populisms. * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Mexico’s Peripheries as a Case Study for Violence against Journalists around the World Part I. The Past, Place, and Politics of Violence against Journalists 1. How Journalists Became Their Own Activists: A Historical Perspective 2. Place Matters: The Promise and Limits of the Periphery 3. Moving Targets and Perpetrators: Mercurial Violence, Ownership, and Changing Journalism Practices Part II. Murdering the Messengers and Controlling the Message 4. Red Light, Green Light: Strategies of Resistance among Journalists in the Peripheries 5. The Personal and Familial Toll: Violence, Trauma, and Resilience 6. Social Media, Digital Insecurity, and Journalists’ Safety Part III. Structured and Unstructured Attempts to Save Journalism and Journalists 7. Attempts to Intervene 8. State Actors, Violence, and Resilience among Organized Crime Groups 9. Women on the Frontline: Resistance and Resilience in Ciudad Juárez Conclusion: Toward a More Secure Journalism Future Appendix: Journalists Killed in Mexico 2000–2020, by Presidential Administration Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA rigorously researched study shows how Mexican organized crime enjoys the protection of government officials, and some media companies, while individual journalists and their allies try to safeguard themselves and those willing to expose corruption and cTrade ReviewA book filled with stories of horror—and of hope. * Texas Observer *A meticulously researched study…[Surviving Mexico] is made lively and moving by the many interviews with Mexican journalists and media owners who themselves tell the stories of the dangers and at times, the horrors, that working reporters routinely face in many parts of Mexico. * ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America *Urgently indispensable...Based on more than 160 interviews with journalists, activists, and academics across several regions of the country, González de Bustamante and Relly present a highly readable account of the myriad dangers faced by journalists in Mexico, the impact of trauma and violence on their lives, and how individuals and collectives have organized to meet the challenges of working in such a dangerous place. * Nieman Lab *Surviving Mexico is a much-needed book that offers a wide scope for understanding the endemic violence against Mexican journalists. It will be useful for scholars and journalists interested in understanding the harsh conditions that news workers have to constantly face when doing their jobs. The book’s central arguments and discussions are consistent with broader debates on media in the Global South, where emergent democracies struggle with post-authoritarianisms and populisms. * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Mexico’s Peripheries as a Case Study for Violence against Journalists around the World Part I. The Past, Place, and Politics of Violence against Journalists 1. How Journalists Became Their Own Activists: A Historical Perspective 2. Place Matters: The Promise and Limits of the Periphery 3. Moving Targets and Perpetrators: Mercurial Violence, Ownership, and Changing Journalism Practices Part II. Murdering the Messengers and Controlling the Message 4. Red Light, Green Light: Strategies of Resistance among Journalists in the Peripheries 5. The Personal and Familial Toll: Violence, Trauma, and Resilience 6. Social Media, Digital Insecurity, and Journalists’ Safety Part III. Structured and Unstructured Attempts to Save Journalism and Journalists 7. Attempts to Intervene 8. State Actors, Violence, and Resilience among Organized Crime Groups 9. Women on the Frontline: Resistance and Resilience in Ciudad Juárez Conclusion: Toward a More Secure Journalism Future Appendix: Journalists Killed in Mexico 2000–2020, by Presidential Administration Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West. A word that means publishing over there, tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication in the Soviet Union and were smuggled through various channels and printed outside the country, with or without their authors' knowledge. Yasha Klots demonstrates how tamizdat contributed to the formation of the twentieth-century Russian literary canon: the majority of contemporary Russian classics first appeared abroad long before they saw publication in Russia. Examining narratives of Stalinism and the Gulag, Klots focuses on contraband manuscripts in the 1960s and 70s, from Khrushchev's Thaw to Stagnation under Brezhnev. Klots revisits the traditional notion of late Soviet culture as a binary opposition between the underground and official state publishing. He shows that even as tamizdat represented an alternative

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Book SynopsisAmerican books in print during this significant period, with appendices giving full publication details of ten of the most important volumes in the group.

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Book SynopsisOffering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized “the author function” in his 1969 essay “What Is an Author?” proposing that the existence of the author limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question and undo the corporate “editorial/industrial complex.” Marking an end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how.The Editor Function follows avant-garde American literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing formations, from Cid Corman’s Origin and Nathaniel Mackey’s Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e), Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing initiatives in the postwar United States.The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly mundane tasks of these editors—routine editorial correspondence, line editing, list formation—emerge visions of new, better worlds and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.Trade Review"The Editor Function fills an enormous void in the literary history of the postwar era. Abram Foley’s meticulous archival scholarship reveals the centrality—and the elusiveness—of editors and their practices. This is a must-read book for scholars of contemporary U.S. fiction and poetry, as well as for those interested in small-press publishing and avant-garde communities."—Paul Stephens, author of absence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature"If early modern Europe saw the ‘author function’ assume some of the social and legal roles traditionally played by publishers, Abram Foley shows us a more recent assumption of literary and artistic roles by editors. In the process, The Editor Function boldly extends the scope of literary history to the dynamic practices of publishing itself."—Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography "Foley excels in weaving a complicated web of editors, authors, and publishing houses, each with their own agenda in creating postwar American literary culture... [The Editor Function] fills an obvious gap in literature about literary publishing following World War II into the present."—College & Research LibrariesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Editor Function1. Editing and the Open Field: Charles Olson’s Letters to Editors2. Editing and the Institution: John O’Brien and Dalkey Archive Press3. Editing and the Ensemble: Nathaniel Mackey's Hambone4. Editing and Eros: Chris Kraus, Semiotext(e), and I Love DickCoda: Editing and EntropyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOffering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized “the author function” in his 1969 essay “What Is an Author?” proposing that the existence of the author limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question and undo the corporate “editorial/industrial complex.” Marking an end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to rethink what we read and how.The Editor Function follows avant-garde American literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing formations, from Cid Corman’s Origin and Nathaniel Mackey’s Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e), Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing initiatives in the postwar United States.The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly mundane tasks of these editors—routine editorial correspondence, line editing, list formation—emerge visions of new, better worlds and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.Trade Review"The Editor Function fills an enormous void in the literary history of the postwar era. Abram Foley’s meticulous archival scholarship reveals the centrality—and the elusiveness—of editors and their practices. This is a must-read book for scholars of contemporary U.S. fiction and poetry, as well as for those interested in small-press publishing and avant-garde communities."—Paul Stephens, author of absence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature"If early modern Europe saw the ‘author function’ assume some of the social and legal roles traditionally played by publishers, Abram Foley shows us a more recent assumption of literary and artistic roles by editors. In the process, The Editor Function boldly extends the scope of literary history to the dynamic practices of publishing itself."—Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography "Foley excels in weaving a complicated web of editors, authors, and publishing houses, each with their own agenda in creating postwar American literary culture... [The Editor Function] fills an obvious gap in literature about literary publishing following World War II into the present."—College & Research LibrariesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Editor Function1. Editing and the Open Field: Charles Olson’s Letters to Editors2. Editing and the Institution: John O’Brien and Dalkey Archive Press3. Editing and the Ensemble: Nathaniel Mackey's Hambone4. Editing and Eros: Chris Kraus, Semiotext(e), and I Love DickCoda: Editing and EntropyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTheodore Low De Vinne (1828–1914) was the leading commercial printer of his day and is one of the most important figures in the book world of the nineteenth-century United States. Illustrating De Vinne's life and accomplishments, and published to coincide with the centenary of his death, this catalogue accompanied a Grolier Club exhibition. It contains books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, and other objects, many drawn from the Club's own collections. A detailed checklist and a foreword by the award-winning type designer Matthew Carter enhance the volume’s usefulness for anyone interested in the history of the book.

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Book SynopsisA gorgeously illustrated tour of several centuries of American magazine history. The history of the American magazine is intricately entwined with the history of the nation itself. In the colonial eighteenth century, magazines were crucial outlets for revolutionary thought, with the first statement of American independence appearing in Thomas Paine’s Pennsylvania Magazine in June 1776. In the eighteenth century, magazines were some of the first staging grounds for still-contentious debates on Federalism and states’ rights. In the years that followed, the landscape of publications spread in every direction to explore aspects of American life from sports to politics, religion to entertainment, and beyond.Magazines and the American Experience is an expansive and chronological tour of the American magazine from 1733 to the present. Illustrated with more than four hundred color images, the book examines an enormous selection of specialty magazines devoted to a range of interests running from labor to leisure to literature. The contributors—Leonard Banco and Suze Bienaimee, both experts in the field of periodical history—devote particular focus to magazines written for and by Black Americans throughout US history, including David Ruggles’s Mirror of History (1838), [Frederick] Douglass’ Monthly (1859), the combative Messenger (1917), the Negro Digest (1942), and Essence (1970). With its mix of detailed descriptions, historical context, and lush illustrations, this handsome guide to American magazines should entice casual readers and serious collectors alike. Trade Review"A delightful combination of historical commentary and beautiful photos. . . The author covers a dizzying swath of territory with remarkable concision, including magazines devoted to literary pursuits, trade, social activism, business, and fashion. . . . Lomazow’s expertise on the subject is inarguably magisterial. . .The book is adorned with dozens of stunning photographs, some immediately recognizable as iconic and others tantalizingly esoteric and rare. This is a remarkable history—thoughtful, granularly meticulous, and comprehensive—as well as a visually spectacular showpiece. One needn’t be a magazine collector to thoroughly enjoy this refreshingly original overview of American history." * Kirkus Reviews *“The print-besotted can console themselves with a Platonic vision of the Great American Newsstand as it never was, at least not all at the same time. . . . Cumulatively, the titles on display give a window into broad themes of American history, including the emergence of political parties (which, back in the early 19th century, had their own magazines), the coming of the Civil War, the evolution of the Black freedom movement and the rise of new technologies like television and computers.” -- Jennifer Schuessler * The New York Times *“What made magazines appealing in 1720 is the same thing that made them appealing in 1920 and in 2020: a blend of iconoclasm and authority, novelty and continuity, marketability and creativity, social engagement and personal voice. … The American experiment is a print experiment at heart, and, for Lomazow, acquisition has meant watching history fall into place.” —Nathan Heller, The New Yorker -- Nathan Heller * The New Yorker *“It intersperses a history with surveys of baseball, African-American culture, artists as illustrators, science, pulp fiction and humor.” -- Edward Rothstein * The Wall Street Journal *“That these magazines were all collected by one person makes [it] all the more remarkable. Included. . .are the first issues of. . . Time and Life and Playboy and Rolling Stone and Ms. The collection is equally committed to lesser-known domains, including the so-called little magazines that published the literary avant-garde in the early twentieth century, and periodicals dedicated to abolition, prohibition, and other political causes.” -- Jonathan Keats * Forbes *“As is pointed out in the excellent catalogue, magazines built American communities, and fashioned their mores and prejudices.” -- Todd McEwan * Apollo *"Magazines and the American Experience: Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow is a much-needed resource and offers a convincing argument for a greater appreciation of the medium." * Bibliographical Society of America *Table of ContentsPreface: magazines!“Magazine Magic”Introduction: The Early History of the Magazine IndustryI. A Chronology of American Magazines1. Building a Nation: 1733–922. A House Divided: 1793–18503. The Industrial Age: 1851–924. America and the World: 1893–19455. The Information Age: 1946–PresentII. Specialty Magazines6. The Urge to Reform: Radical Magazines 7. A Nation of Readers: Literary Magazines8. American Avant-Gardism: Little Magazines9. Literature for the People: Pulp Magazines10. “What fools these mortals be!”: Humor Magazine11. Great American Pastimes: Sports Magazines12. Separate and Unequal: African American Magazines13. The Show Must Go On: Theater, Movie, Radio, and Television Magazines14. On the Move: Transportation Magazines15. Images of a Nation: Art and MagazinesAcknowledgmentsAdditional MagazinesNotesBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWorks of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary developments in the field—the rise of Amazon, self-publishing platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing conglomerates—and show how these interact with older practices, from fan conventions to writers' groups.Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures, Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction's most compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the texts.

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Book SynopsisWorks of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary developments in the field—the rise of Amazon, self-publishing platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing conglomerates—and show how these interact with older practices, from fan conventions to writers' groups.Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures, Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction's most compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the texts.

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Book SynopsisIn the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women—both Black and white—were able to reshape their lives and their social worlds through their participation in these institutions.Organizing Women traces the histories of middle-class women—rural and urban, white and Black, married and unmarried—who used public and private institutions of print to tell their stories, expand their horizons, and further their ambitions. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, Christine Pawley introduces readers to women who ran branch libraries and library schools in Chicago and Madison, built radio empires from their midwestern farms, formed reading clubs, and published newsletters. In the process, we learn about the organizations themselves, from libraries and universities to the USDA extension service and the YWCA, and the ways in which women confronted gender discrimination and racial segregation in the course of their work.

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Book SynopsisWhen Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking The Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to strike out on his own. With a specialized knowledge of finance and close connections to top Washington officials, Kiplinger was uniquely positioned to tell deeper truths about the intersections between government and business. With careful reporting and insider access, he delivered perceptive analysis and forecasts of business, economic, and politics news to busy business executives, and the newsletter's readership grew exponentially over the coming decades.More than just a pioneering business journalist, Kiplinger emerged as a quiet but powerful link between the worlds of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, and used his Letter to play a little-known but influential role in the New Deal. Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a well-written and deeply researched portrayal of how Kiplinger not only developed a widely read newsletter that launched a business publishing empire but also how he forged a new role for the journalist as political actor.

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.In this original study, Siobhán McIlvanney examines the beginnings of the women’s press in France. Figurations of the Feminine is the first work in English to assess the most significant publications which make up this diverse, yet critically neglected, medium. It traces the evolving representations of womanhood that appear over the first ninety years of women’s journals in France. McIlvanney’s insightful readings demonstrate that these journals are often characterised by a remarkable degree of ‘feminist’ content. This refutes the general conception of the women’s press as an idealised, hyper-feminised space inhabited by the intellectually idle – whether in the form of readers or writers – disseminating and legitimating a limited range of patriarchal stereotypes and idées reçues. Through textual analyses of different ‘generic’ subsections, whether the literary journal, the fashion magazine, the domestic press or more explicitly politicised outputs, Figurations of the Feminine challenges the critical commonplaces which have been applied to the women’s press since its genesis, both in France and elsewhere. It demonstrates the political richness of this medium and the privileged perspectives it gives us on female self-expression and on the everyday lives of French women from across the class spectrum during this key historical period.Trade Review‘A theoretically sophisticated history of the early female press in France, Figurations of the Feminine fills an important gap in French literary studies and gender history. This book offers the first comprehensive history of the women’s press in France in the politically turbulent years from 1758 to 1848. Siobhán McIlvanney’s deeply researched study will engage scholars across a range of fields and will inspire them to think in fresh ways about the complexity of gender construction in the popular press, and the potential for women’s agency and consciousness through the liberating act of reading.’ Jennifer M. Jones, Department of History, Rutgers University‘Early French women’s journals were about so much more than fashion. Not only do they provide today’s reader with valuable insights into the cultural backgrounds of their writers and readers, but they were also a key means of promoting women’s emancipation at the time. And this is what Siobhán McIlvanney’s excellent book is all about.’ Dr Annemarie Kleinert, Author of Le Journal des dames et des modes ou la conquête de l’Europe féminine (1797-1839)'An engaging and valuable contribution to the field of early French women’s history.' Professor Joyce Dixon-Fyle, DePauw University‘The book splendidly debunks assumptions about early women’s press…For anyone interested in media, communication, representation politics, and feminism, this constitutes a captivating account of an overlooked literary genre, also providing a model for studies in other places or times.’Hélène B. Ducros, Europe Now'This thoroughly researched monograph, deeply grounded in historical documentation, sheds light on a little-studied literary genre that could be considered ‘as more pivotal to the proliferation of Enlightenment ideas…than more “heavyweight” literary and philosophical texts’. It will appeal to scholars and students of French history, French education, early modern women and gender studies.' Anne R. Larsen, French History‘[McIlvanney] bridges a significant gap in scholarship by synthesizing a rich array of previous work on specific authors, periodicals, and historical contexts in a finely crafted comparative study subtended by strong theoretical readings of the ways in which the women’s press, consisting for the most part of women journalists, gave voice to the concerns of their gender.’Mary Rice-DeFosse, Modern Language Review'A rich contribution to the history of French women and their press, this book will undoubtedly generate dialogue among scholars interested in the history and role of women in French print culture.' Cheryl Morgan, French Studies‘Figurations of the Feminine is a detailed, solidly useful contribution to women’s history as well as cultural studies, spanning the end of the Ancien Regime through the rise of the Second Republic. Highly recommended.’ Kate M. Bonin, French Review 'Figurations of the Feminine is a beautifully written, rigorously researched study, an absolute must-read for anyone interested in the history of journalism, feminism, and women's writing in general.'Hope Christiansen, Dalhousie French Studies‘McIlvanney’s primary research, mostly conducted in the archives at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris, demonstrates thorough and meticulous attention to the details of the journals both as material objects and as written and illustrated texts in society… the book is a tremendous resource for scholars of French periodicals or women’s journalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.’ Tonya J. Moutrey, *ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 *Table of ContentsIntroductionGeneral TrendsChapter 1. Women’s Roles, Rights and Representations in France, 1758-1848Chapter 2. Women Writers and Readers: The Beginnings of French Women’s Journals and Le Journal des dames (1759-1778)Chapter 3. Educating the Female Consumer: Early Fashion JournalsChapter 4. A Woman’s Place: Marriage and Homemaking in the Early Domestic PressChapter 5. Reforming the Feminine: Early Feminist JournalsConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe path to success as an academic economist is littered with obstacles. Even with excellent research material, one faces issues of running the seminar and conference gauntlet, tempestuous relationships with co-authors, the selection of an appropriate journal outlet, a detailed peer review process and, with it, the ever-present spectre of rejection.This collection tackles the issues confronting the up-and-coming economist. The authors include some of the subject's finest luminaries who offer friendly and invaluable advice as well as providing a more light-hearted look at the publication process. Some articles have become classics in their own right. They vary from an examination of seminal (and originally rejected) articles by leading economists to an analysis of why referees are not adequately paid. The tools of both economic theory and econometrics are applied to uncover some home truths and, as a result, these papers provide new insights into the nature of economic discourse.Trade Review'We have all had rejections that infuriated us because the reviewers always seem not to have read our work with the care and understanding that it merits.' -- William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, US'I somehow rub referees up the wrong way, maybe by claiming more originality than I really have. Whatever the cause, I still open return letters from journals with fear and trembling, and more often than not get bad news. I am having a terrible time with my current work on economic geography. Referees tell me that it is obvious, it's wrong and anyway they said it years ago.' -- Paul Krugman, MIT, US'Everyone has a "good" paper rejected at one time because of a vicious unfair stupid referee and everyone has a "bad" paper rejected at one time because it deserves to be buried. Neither are quite as devastating as a teenager being rejected in some passionate one-sided romance, but you still can't forget them.' -- Richard Freeman, NBER, US'Economists are peculiar social scientists not least because they attach enormous value to the publication of articles in the refereed journals and virtually no value to the publication of books. It is difficult for economists to have a coffee break without a conversation which quickly turns to questions like: "Why was my article refereed by so-and-so journal? Why did the anonymous referees say what they did? Where shall I send my next paper?" In short, the publication process merits a hideous fascination if only because it governs the pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards of the economics profession. Here are 15 classic articles on that topic gathered together by an editor who has long studied the practices of economics journals. Although economists do not read books, this is one book they will want to read - and with profit too.' -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Success and Rejection in Economics 1. Life Among the Econ 2. The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette 3. How are the Might Fallen 4. Aging and Productivity Among Economists Part II: Referees and Editors 5. Facts and Myths About Refereeing 6. Is There Value Added from the Review Process in Economics? 7. The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing 8. Favoritism versus Search for Good Papers 9. Why Referees are not Paid (Enough) Part III: To Co-Author or Not to Co-Author 10. Estimates of the Returns to Quality and Co-authorship in Economic Academia 11. Trends in Multi-Authored Papers in Economics 12. First Author Conditions Part IV: The Influence of Economics Journals 13. The Journals of Economics 14. The Scholarly Journal Literature of Economics 15. The Relative Impacts of Economics Journals Index

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Book SynopsisThe path to success as an academic economist is littered with obstacles. Even with excellent research material, one faces issues of running the seminar and conference gauntlet, tempestuous relationships with co-authors, the selection of an appropriate journal outlet, a detailed peer review process and, with it, the ever-present spectre of rejection.This collection tackles the issues confronting the up-and-coming economist. The authors include some of the subject's finest luminaries who offer friendly and invaluable advice as well as providing a more light-hearted look at the publication process. Some articles have become classics in their own right. They vary from an examination of seminal (and originally rejected) articles by leading economists to an analysis of why referees are not adequately paid. The tools of both economic theory and econometrics are applied to uncover some home truths and, as a result, these papers provide new insights into the nature of economic discourse.Trade Review'We have all had rejections that infuriated us because the reviewers always seem not to have read our work with the care and understanding that it merits.' -- William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, US'I somehow rub referees up the wrong way, maybe by claiming more originality than I really have. Whatever the cause, I still open return letters from journals with fear and trembling, and more often than not get bad news. I am having a terrible time with my current work on economic geography. Referees tell me that it is obvious, it's wrong and anyway they said it years ago.' -- Paul Krugman, MIT, US'Everyone has a "good" paper rejected at one time because of a vicious unfair stupid referee and everyone has a "bad" paper rejected at one time because it deserves to be buried. Neither are quite as devastating as a teenager being rejected in some passionate one-sided romance, but you still can't forget them.' -- Richard Freeman, NBER, US'Economists are peculiar social scientists not least because they attach enormous value to the publication of articles in the refereed journals and virtually no value to the publication of books. It is difficult for economists to have a coffee break without a conversation which quickly turns to questions like: "Why was my article refereed by so-and-so journal? Why did the anonymous referees say what they did? Where shall I send my next paper?" In short, the publication process merits a hideous fascination if only because it governs the pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards of the economics profession. Here are 15 classic articles on that topic gathered together by an editor who has long studied the practices of economics journals. Although economists do not read books, this is one book they will want to read - and with profit too.' -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Success and Rejection in Economics 1. Life Among the Econ 2. The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette 3. How are the Might Fallen 4. Aging and Productivity Among Economists Part II: Referees and Editors 5. Facts and Myths About Refereeing 6. Is There Value Added from the Review Process in Economics? 7. The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing 8. Favoritism versus Search for Good Papers 9. Why Referees are not Paid (Enough) Part III: To Co-Author or Not to Co-Author 10. Estimates of the Returns to Quality and Co-authorship in Economic Academia 11. Trends in Multi-Authored Papers in Economics 12. First Author Conditions Part IV: The Influence of Economics Journals 13. The Journals of Economics 14. The Scholarly Journal Literature of Economics 15. The Relative Impacts of Economics Journals Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, which is a mixture of fact, anecdote and quotation, describes the author's meandering exploration of some of the best of England's provincial second-hand bookshops, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Isles of Scilly. Judged by the contents of the author's bookshelves, he has a strong but highly selective interest in sport, with rugby union, cricket and bowls foremost, and the odd place allowed to football and golf. There are biographies and autobiographies from Bernard Shaw to Alan Ross; a dozen volumes by W. H. Hudson, greatest of naturalists; travels with Henry James and Paul Theroux and Edwin Muir; books on cinema Westerns; essays by Ford Madox Ford and Edward Thomas; a novel or two; and a little poetry. The bulk of these books are dependent, to a greater or lesser extent, on fact, suggesting, correctly, that their owner is a journalist.Trade Review"A mixture of fact, anecdote and quotation, this book describes the author's exploration of the best of England's provincial second-hand bookshops - a splendid personal view of hours spent closeted among shelves filled with every book imaginable." -- The Oldie."I would say that bookselling is the most humane, sociable, ill-organised, yet absorbing form of commerce to be found anywhere." -- Eric Moore, Hitchin bookseller."Five million books are published in the world every year. Only one per cent of them are any good, and settle, and they end up in second-hand shops." -- Victor Suchar, Camden Books, Bath.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Traylen's; Stone Trough, York; Kim's, Worthing; Hall's, Tunbridge Wells; Arundel; Staffs, Lichfield; Baggins, Rochester; Camden, Bath; Petersfield; Howes, Hastings; Steedman, Newcastle; Tombland, Norwich; Gibb's, Manchester; Fifteenth Century, Lewes; Chapel Books, Westleton; Albion, Broadstairs; Halewood & Sons, Preston; Camilla's, Eastbourne; Brookes, Brighton; Sanctuary, Lyme Regis; Broadhurst, Southport; Castle, Colchester; Thornton's, Oxford; The Bookshop, Cambridge; Barely Read Books, Westerham; H. M. Gilbert & Son, Southampton; Academy, Southsea; Readers Rest, Lincoln; Portland, Leamington Spa; Sterling, Weston-super-Mare; Two islands; Murray & Kennett, Horsham; Treasure Trove, Leicester; Scarthin, Cromford; Rye Old Books; D'Arcy Books, Devizes; Eric T. Moore, Hitchin; Barter Books, Alnwick; Farewell to True Bookshops by John F. X. Harriott; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work as a printer and publisher at the Hogarth Press. In bringing to light her embodied literary processes, from drafting and composition to hand-printing and binding, this study foregrounds the interactions between Woolf's modernist experimentation and the visual and material aspects of her printed works. By drawing on the field of print culture, as well as the materialist turn in Woolf scholarship, it explores how her experience in print, book-design and publishing underlines her experimental writing, and how her literary texts are conditioned by the context of their production. This book, therefore, provides new ways of reading Woolf's modernism in the context of twentieth-century print, material, and visual cultures. By suggesting that Woolf's work at the Hogarth Press sensitized her to the significant role the visual aspects of a text play in its system of representation, it also considers the extent to which materiality informs both her work, as well as her engagement with Bloomsbury formalist aesthetics, which often exaggerate the distinction between visual and verbal modes of expression.Table of ContentsPart I: Materiality.1. Introduction: Writing, Materiality, and Aesthetics.2. Conversations in Colour and Ink: Feminist Aesthetics in ‘The Mark on the Wall’ and Kew Gardens.3. ‘Fill in the sketch as you like’: Developing the Fragmentary Form of Jacob’s Room.4. ‘The cold raw edge of one’s relinquished pages’: Reading Mrs Dalloway as a Palimpsest.Part II. Aesthetics.5. Drafting Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe: Feminist Aesthetics in the Manuscript of To the Lighthouse.6. ‘A succession of semblances’: Form and Feminism in The Waves.7. ‘Getting the past to shadow this broken surface’: Time, Materiality, and Aesthetics.

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