Fiction and the fiction industry / J.A. Sutherland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutherland, John, 1938- author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Academic collections : English literary criticism : general theory and history.

Bloomsbury Academic collections : English literary criticism : general theory and history, 2051-0012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--Economic aspects.

Authorship.

Book industries and trade--Great Britain.

Book industries and trade.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This topical, lively and wide-ranging book examines the material conditions under which the contemporary English novel is produced and consumed. Its starting point is the general economic emergency which showed up these conditions with unusual clarity in the early 1970s. The first section of the book, 'Crisis and Change', considers the changing patterns of institutional book-purchase, inflation and novel-production, the 'Americanisation' of the British book trade, and the present state of fiction reviewing. The second section, 'State Remedies', surveys such interventions, and failed interventions, as Public Lending Right, Arts Council patronage, and university support for creative writers. The third section, 'Trends, Mainly American', selects specific areas (paperback publishing, self-publishing, book-clubs, television work) which offer pointers to significant future developments in British literary culture. Fiction and the Fiction Industry pays close attention to actual novels, combining literary criticism with its examination of the book trade."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Crisis and Change. 1 Fiction and the 1973-6 Library Crisis ; 2 Fiction in a Siege Economy ; 3 The American Future of British Fiction ; 4 Ragtime, A Novel for Our Times ; 5 The Reviewing Establishment

State Remedies. 6 Public Lending Right: A Salary for Authors ; 7 The Arts Council: Subsidy for the Author ; 8 Campus Writers

Trends, Mainly American. 9 Paperback Revolutions ; 10 Packaged Literature: Book Clubs and Genre ; 11 Independent Publishing ; 12 The Telenovel Postscript.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published in 1978 by the Athlone Press.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781472554055

1472554051

9781472511713

1472511719

OCLC:

1057401854