Under the Cover : The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel /

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Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers. The subject is Jarrettsville, a historical novel by Cornelia Nixon, which was published in 2009 and based on an actual murder committed by an ancestor of Ni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Childress, Clayton (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 73
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism > 21st century.
Book industries and trade.
Books.
Literature and society.
Printing.
Publishers and publishing.
Sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Adam Krefman.
Angels Go Naked.
BookExpo America.
Cornelia Nixon.
Counterpoint Press.
Jarrettsville.
Kim Wylie.
Martha's Version.
Now You See It.
Publishers Group West.
Richard Cairnes.
Starbucks.
Wendy Weil.
artistic books.
authors.
book groups.
books.
bookstores.
career.
commercial books.
copyediting.
creation.
editors.
education.
email.
family.
finances.
literary agents.
literary influences.
literary magazines.
marketing.
middle-class income.
personal life.
production.
publishers.
publishing houses.
publishing.
readers.
reception.
relationships.
retailers.
reviewers.
social interactions.
sociology.
structural racism.
writing style.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction: The estrangement of Creation, Production, and reception
  • PART I. THE FIELD OF CREATION
  • 2 The Structure of Creativity
  • 3. Authorial Careers: or, how $6,000 Becomes a Middle- Class income
  • PART II. From Creation to ProduCtion
  • 4. Literary agents and double duties
  • PART III. The Field of Production
  • 5. Decision Making, Taste, and financial Commitment to Culture: or, Why Counterpoint Press accepted Jarrettsville after rejecting it
  • 6. Industry Structure and the Position and disposition of Publishers: or, how Some of the end of Jarrettsville Quite literally Became the Beginning
  • 7. Storytelling and Mythmaking
  • PART IV. From Production to reception
  • 8. Retailers and reviewers: or, how Being Placed on the front Table Could have Tanked Jarrettsville
  • PART V. The Field of Reception
  • 9. Reading life into novels
  • 10. Reading novels into life
  • PART VI. Connecting the Circuit
  • 11. Conclusion: reconnecting Creation, Production, and reception
  • Methodological appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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