Marketing Literature

The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain

• Author(s): C. Squires,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 237
• ISBN_10: 0230593003
  ISBN_13: 9780230593008
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Social Science / Media Studies , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... This is an important study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. It analyzes the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, authorship and reading. It includes case studies of Trainspotting and the His Dark Materials trilogy.