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Editorial Masculinity And The Sex Work Of Print - Or, That'S So George Thompson

by Sarah H. (Emory University) Salter

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 This volume recovers early scandals of sexuality shaping the underground press in antebellum New York. In 'racy' newspapers, periodical editors used the form and content of their publications to curate, create, and circulate new ideas about emerging and established social forms. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Joseph Whitaker - 'Mechanic' To The Victorian Book Trade

by Rachel (Institute Of English Studies, University Of London And Trinity College, University Of Cambridge) Calder

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 Joseph Whitaker is best remembered today as the originator of Whitaker's Almanack, but he was also one of the most important publishers of the nineteenth century. As editor of The Bookseller, he had a panoramic view of the book trade and studied the commercial and structural forces that shaped its activities.
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Degrees Of Academic Librarians - The Case For Capacious Credentialing

by Bryn (University Of Vermont) Geffert

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 It's difficult to name a question more contentious than the question of credentialing for academic librarians. This Element offers an examination, critique of, and solution to the perennial and contentious question of credentialing for academic librarians. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Translating The Witcher - Publishing Fantasy Fiction In Europe

by Justine (University Of Lorraine) Breton

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 This study traces the editorial journey of Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy work from Poland to the world, focusing on the stages of dissemination, translation, and publishing that Wiedzmin (The Witcher) has been undergoing in Europe.
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Republishing Postwar Experimental Novels By Women - The Case Of Ann Quin

by Leigh (University Of Westminster) Wilson

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 Innovative novels by women published in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s have returned with a vengeance in the last decade. By focusing the publishing and republishing of the work of Ann Quin (1936â€"1973), this Element remakes the feminist critical landscape for work on novelists from the past and on publishing.
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Digital Scholarly Editing In Practice - Making Oxford University Voltaire

by Dan (Dancan Ltd) Barker, Glenn (University Of Oxford) Roe e Nicholas (Voltaire Foundation, University Of Oxford) Cronk

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 In recent decades, digital scholarly editions have gained prominence, the shift from print to digital demands not only new editorial approaches but also sustained attention to issues of technical and financial sustainability. This essay examines these issues by focussing on one case-study: the creation of the digital Oxford University Voltaire.
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The Brick-And-Mortar Bookstore In Contemporary India

by Nayantara (University Of Munster ) Srinivasan

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 This Element explores the landscape of anglophone trade bookselling in India, aiming to identify some key factors that have influenced the changing place of the brick-and-mortar bookstore over the last decade. The discussion focuses on a specific time period identified as a significant turning point, the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pamphleteering - Polemic, Print, And The Infrastructure Of Political Agency

by Pierre-Heli (Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich) Monot

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 This Element provides a brief history of short-form polemical literature from the Reformation to the present. It argues that popular dissent and popular political agency must be understood in light of the material and, more recently, digital history of polemical literature. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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The People Of Print - Eighteenth-Century England

by Adam James (York St John University) Smith, Barbara (University Of Durham) Crosbie, Dominic (Newcastle University) Bridge, Helen (Northumbria University) Williams, Jacob (University Of St Andrews) Baxter, Kaley Kramer, Kate (Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University) Ozment, Lisa (Wayne State University) Maruca, Rachel (University Of Sussex) Stenner e Sarah (University Of York/York Minster Library) Griffin

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 This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook.
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Art Books For The People - The Origins Of The Penguin Modern Painters

by David Trigg

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 The Penguin Modern Painters (1944â€"1959) was a groundbreaking series of British art monographs designed to promote the work of contemporary artists to a general readership. This Element makes a contribution to the understanding of the relationship between publishing and the visual arts during the Second World War.
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Inclusive Publishing And The Quest For Reading Equity

by Agata (University Of Sydney) Mrva-Montoya

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 Despite unprecedented opportunities to publish content in accessible formats, most books remain inaccessible to people with print disability. This Element offers the first holistic examination of this landscape, and argues for the need to move away from ad hoc remediation of books towards the commercial production of 'born-accessible' content.
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Innovations In Digital Comics - A Popular Revolution

by Francesca Benatti

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 The success of popular webcomics (comics produced and read entirely digitally) is the greatest revolution in the comics medium of the last two decades. Webcomics exploit a socio-technical convergence between digital platforms and participatory cultures, enabling global authors to work together with global audiences to transcend established print comics structures. After defining digital comics, webcomics and webtoons, this Element presents a case study of Korean platform WEBTOON, which achieved 100 billion global page views in 2019. The study analyses data from their website, including views, subscriptions and likes, to quantify and assess whether WEBTOON's commercial and critical success is connected to its inclusion of a wider range of genres and of a more diverse author base than mainstream English-language print comics. In so doing, it performs the first Book Historical study of webcomics and webtoons. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Transnational Crusoe, Illustration And Reading History, 1719â€“1722

by Sandro (Fudan University) Jung

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 Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic interpretations of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Scholarly Editing In Perspective

by Wim (Loughborough University) Van Mierlo

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 Scholarly Editing in Perspective offers a critical reflection on the theory and methods of textual editing, as a contribution to a wider, comparative understanding of editorial practice.
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Asexuality In Young Adult Fiction

by Noah (Deakin University ) O'Connor

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 The Asexual Exile trope positions asexual characters outside of society by portraying them as loners, inhuman, or adjacent to death. This research identifies trends in these portrayals by considering a corpus of 42 traditionally published novels of Young Adult fiction featuring asexual protagonists.
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Women Booksellers In The Twentieth Century - Hidden Behind The Bookshelves

by Samantha J. (University College London) Rayner

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 The British women booksellers who built and ran successful businesses before, during, and after the Second World War have largely been forgotten. This Element seeks to reclaim some of these histories. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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The Form And Theory Of Literary Doodling

by Daniel (King'S Ely) Gabelman e Jeremiah R. (Columbia University, New York) Mercurio

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 This Element investigates the phenomenon of literary doodlingâ€"the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity. It argues that doodles, despite their apparent triviality, provide valuable insights into the creative processes, authorial habits, and finished works of literary doodlers.
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Unprinted - Publication Beyond The Press

by Brian M. (The Queen'S College, University Of Oxford) Moore, Daniel (University Of Oxford) Haywood, Daniel (University Of Oxford) Wakelin, Daria (Ku Leuven) Kohler, Edward (British School At Athens) Jones, Felix M. (University Of Oxford) Simon, Katie (University Of Oxford) Noble, Micah (Balliol College, University Of Oxford) Mackay, Natascha (Domeisen Rare Books) Domeisen e Rosie (University Of Oxford) Maxton

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 This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity.
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Printing Technologies And Book Production In Seventeenth-Century Japan

by Peter (Robinson College, Cambridge) Kornicki

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 This Element first sets the history of printing in Japan in its East Asian context, showing how developments in China, Korea and elsewhere had an impact upon Japan. It then reexamines printing in seventeenth-century Japan and in particular explores the reasons why Japanese printers abandoned typography less than fifty years after it was introduced.
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Mudie'S Select Library And The Shelf Life Of The Nineteenthâ€“Century Novel

by Karen (University College Dublin) Wade

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 This Element describes a data analysis of a collection of Mudie's catalogues spanning eighty years, in order to reassess understandings of the library's role in the nineteenth-century publishing industry. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Old Delhi'S Parallel Book Bazaar

by Kanupriya Dhingra

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 This Element looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities.
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International Bestsellers And The Online Reconfiguring Of National Identity

by Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Millicent Weber e Rachel Noorda

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 This Element explores how contemporary readers' understandings of nation, race/ethnicity, gender, and class continue to shape their reading, using as case studies the online reception of three bestseller titles-Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies (Australia), Zadie Smith's NW (UK), and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians (USA).
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Libraries And The Academic Book

by Matthew J. (The Queenâ€™S College, Oxford) Shaw

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 This Element explores the history of the relationship between libraries and the academic book. It provides an overview of the development of the publishing history of the scholarly - or academic - book, and related creation of the modern research library.
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Behaviour Beyond The Text And The Morality Clause In Twenty-First-Century Publishing

by Chiara (University Of Stirling) Bullen

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 This Element investigates the presence of the morality clause in the UK book publishing industry in relation to an increased focus on author behaviour beyond the text in the twenty-first-century, examining the way it operates within the publishing field in the context of behaviour perceived to be 'problematic'.
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