Overview
- Draws on a comprehensive data set to examine the literary field
- Considers the shifting relationship between gender and power in publishing
- Incorporates interviews from authors, editors, critics, and publishers
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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About this book
Gender and Prestige in Literature: Contemporary Australian Book Culture explores the relationship between gender, power, reputation and book publishing’s consecratory institutions in the Australian literary field from 1965-2015. Focusing on book reviews, literary festivals and literary prizes, this work analyses the ways in which these institutions exist in an increasingly cooperative and generative relationship in the contemporary publishing industry, a system designed to limit field transformation. Taking an intersectional approach, this research acknowledges that a number of factors in addition to gender may influence the reception of an author or a title in the literary field and finds that progress towards equality is unstable and non-linear. By combining quantitative data analysis with interviews from authors, editors, critics, publishers and prize judges Alexandra Dane maps the circulation of prestige in Australian publishing, addressing questions around gender, identity, literary reputation, literary worth and the resilience of the status quo that have long plagued the field.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alexandra Dane is Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on contemporary book cultures, focussing on the relationship between gender, literary consecration and the influence of formal and informal literary networks.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Prestige in Literature
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Australian Book Culture
Authors: Alexandra Dane
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49142-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49141-3Published: 11 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49144-4Published: 11 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49142-0Published: 10 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 239
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of the Book, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature, Printing and Publishing