Under the Cover (eBook)

The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel

Clayton Childress (Autor)

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2017
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8527-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Clayton Childress is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.

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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 Nixon's in the postbellum South.Clayton Childress takes you behind the scenes to examine how Jarrettsville was shepherded across three interdependent fields-authoring, publishing, and reading-and how it was transformed by its journey. Along the way, he covers all aspects of the life of a book, including the author's creative process, the role of the literary agent, how editors decide which books to acquire, how publishers build lists and distinguish themselves from other publishers, how they sell a book to stores and publicize it, and how authors choose their next projects. Childress looks at how books get selected for the front tables in bookstores, why reviewers and readers can draw such different meanings from the same novel, and how book groups across the country make sense of a novel and what it means to them.Drawing on original survey data, in-depth interviews, and groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork, Under the Cover reveals how decisions are made, inequalities are reproduced, and novels are built to travel in the creation, production, and consumption of culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Zusatzinfo: 32 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: adage • Adam Krefman • Advertising • affair • African Americans • Alexander Theroux • Alloy Entertainment • amazon kindle • Angels Go Naked • antiquarian • Archive • artistic books • author • Authors • awareness • Backlist • Bestseller • Bidding War • Bielefeld • Blurb • BookExpo America • book groups • book review • books • bookstores • Boutique • Brigid Berlin • Business Model • Career • Case study • code of silence • Commercial Books • Consideration • Cookbook • Copenhagen Business School • copyediting • Cornelia Nixon • Counterpoint Press • Creation • creative time • Creative Writing • Criticism • Cultural Capital • Description • Designer • D. H. Lawrence • E-Book • editorial • Editors • Education • Email • Employment • enthusiasm • ephemerality • Ernest Hemingway • Evening (magazine) • evocation • Expense • Family • Family history (medicine) • Fiction • Fifty Shades of Grey • Figure It Out • Finances • First-Person Narrative • fluency • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe • Genre • Genre Fiction • Ghostwriter • Hardcover • Harry Potter • headphones • Heuristic • His Family • historical fiction • Homeward • income • Independent bookstore • indiebound • Insider • interdependence • it works • Jack Said • Janet Evanovich • jarrettsville • J. K. Rowling • John Wilkes Booth • Kim Wylie • listening • literary agent • literary agents • Literary Award • literary fiction • Literary Influences • literary magazines • Literature • Long Ago (and Far Away) • Lord of the Flies • lyricist • Major film studio • market forces • Marketing • Market Orientation • Martha's Version • McSweeney's • meaning-making • Memoir • Mentorship • michiko kakutani • middle class • middle-class income • Midlist • narrative • Negotiation • Newsletter • Nikki Giovanni • Non-fiction • novelist • Now you see it • Octavia E. Butler • Old Book (ghost) • Pacifism • Paperback • Paul DiMaggio • pen name • percentage • Personal life • Peter Mayer • Philip Roth • Pierre Bourdieu • Poet • Poetry • popular culture • Positive statement • Price floor • Princeton University • printing • Production • Promissory note • Prose • Publication • Publicity • publishers • Publishers Group West • publishers weekly • Publishing • publishing houses • Racism • Random House • Readers • Reception • relationships • Reputation • Respondent • Retail • Retailers • Return on Investment • reviewers • Richard Cairnes • Romance Novel • Romanticism • screenwriter • Seed Money • Self-Publishing • sensibility • Sexual Violence • Shelfari • Shorthand • Short Story • Social capital • Social interactions • Social Movement • Social organization • Social Science • Society • Sociology • Starbucks • Sticker • Storytelling • structural racism • student loan • Suggestion • Sympathy • Technology • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao • Their Lives • The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel) • The New York Times • The New York Times Best Seller list • The Other Hand • Thomas Wolfe • True Story (magazine) • Uncertainty • University of California Humanities Research Institute • Unless • Upside (magazine) • water for elephants • Wendy Weil • William Faulkner • William Gaddis • Writer • Writing • Writing Style • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8527-2 / 1400885272
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8527-5 / 9781400885275