Virago Reprints and Modern Classics

The Timely Business of Feminist Publishing

Virago Reprints and Modern Classics
D-M Withers
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h178 x 127mm - 75pg
20 May 2021 UK
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9781108813358
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Reprinting, republishing and re-covering old books in new clothes is an established publishing practice. How are books that have fallen out of taste and favour resituated by publishers, and recognised by readers, as relevant and timely? This Element outlines three historical textures within British culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s - History, Remembrance and Heritage - that enabled Virago' s reprint publishing to become a commercial and cultural success. With detailed archival case studies of the Virago Reprint Library, Testament of Youth and the Virago Modern Classics, it elaborates how reprints were profitable for the publisher and moved Virago' s books - and the Virago brand name - from the periphery of culture to the centre. Throughout Virago' s reprint publishing - and especially with the Modern Classics - the epistemic revelation that women writers were forgotten and could, therefore, be rediscovered, was repeated, again and again, and made culturally productive through the marketplace.

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Virago Reprints and Modern Classics: The Timely Business of Feminist Publishing

Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781108813358
Published: 20 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 6mm
Weight: 102g
Pages: 75

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