This week I will be presenting on the key theories, concepts and approaches taken to research in the field of publishing studies.

A pdf file of the slides can be downloaded here.

Thank you for your contributions today and for listening!

Should you need to view the lecture again, a recording can be viewed below:

Below is a list of useful resources mentioned in the lecture materials which you should be able to access using the library catalogue, to follow up with and to refer to afterwards in your own time.

Please note that you will need to search the library catalogue for titles that do not have a link provided. The links provided take you to the University of Stirling library and you may need to sign in to view the item:

Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed.” Poetics (Amsterdam) 12, no. 4 (1983): 311–356.

Bourdieu, Pierre, and Randal Johnson. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993.

Brouillette, Sarah. Literature and the Creative Economy. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2014.

English, James F. The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery. An Introduction to Book History. Second edition. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2013.

Genette, Gérard. Paratexts : Thresholds of Interpretation. Translated by Janet E. Lewin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Howsam, Leslie, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Murray, Simone. “Publishing Studies: Critically Mapping Research in Search of a Discipline.” Publishing research quarterly 22, no. 4 (2006): 3–25.

Noorda, Rachel, and Stevie Marsden. “Twenty-First Century Book Studies: The State of the Discipline.” Book history 22, no. 1 (2019): 370–397.

Radway, Janice A. A Feeling for Books : The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire. Place of publication not identified: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Squires, Claire, and Padmini Ray Murray. “The Digital Publishing Communications Circuit” (2013).

Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed. Cambridge, U.K: Polity, 2012.

A reference is included below which is only available as a hard copy at the University of Library but which you may be able to source through your own institution:

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.