Fiction and the Fiction Industry

by J.A. Sutherland

This topical, lively and wide-ranging book examines the material conditions under which the contemporary English novel is produced and consumed. Its starting point is the general economic emergency which showed up these conditions with unusual clarity in the early 1970s. The first section of the book, 'Crisis and Change', considers the changing patterns of institutional book-purchase, inflation and novel-production, the 'Americanisation' of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472513150
• ISBN13: 9781472513151
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"