The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume One

Download or read book The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume One written by J. Spiers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.