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Virago reprints and modern classics : the timely business of feminist publishing / D-M Withers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Withers, D-M, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture 2514-8524.
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virago Press.
- Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Reprints (Publications).
- Publishing.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- English literature--Women authors.
- English literature.
- Reprints (Publications)--Publishing--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (100 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Reprinting, republishing and re-covering old books in new clothes is an established publishing practice. How are books that have fallen out of taste and favour resituated by publishers, and recognised by readers, as relevant and timely? This Element outlines three historical textures within British culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s - History, Remembrance and Heritage - that enabled Virago's reprint publishing to become a commercial and cultural success. With detailed archival case studies of the Virago Reprint Library, Testament of Youth and the Virago Modern Classics, it elaborates how reprints were profitable for the publisher and moved Virago's books - and the Virago brand name - from the periphery of culture to the centre. Throughout Virago's reprint publishing - and especially with the Modern Classics - the epistemic revelation that women writers were forgotten and could, therefore, be rediscovered, was repeated, again and again, and made culturally productive through the marketplace.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108884440
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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