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Edward Everett Root
John Spiers |
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| English | |
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Victorian Fiction and Victorian Publishing
a History in Aspects
Publishing History, if not the orphan, is the Cinderella of English Studies - a subject which has never owned its own discipline or curricular space in academia. Professor John Sutherland’s interest is in the culturally formative effect of the institutions and machineries of commissioning, manufacturing, legal frameworks, distribution, and reception. A recent interest is in libraries and e-publishing. His approach has always been materialistic.
A Jstor search will yield a sense of the variety and range of material Sutherland has written in the field: and the liveliness of mind with which he has done it.
This new collection gathers his major pieces, with generous additional interpretative comment, to define the lay of the field and points of illustrative interest in it. To map, as it were, a central area of publishing history, as a kind of summary of Sutherland's decades of work on the subject.