Table of Contents 
Volume 1: April 2013

Editors:  Caroline Davis, Senior Lecturer and Lucy Warwick, PhD student
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University

Introduction

Lucy Warwick - Introduction to Volume 1


Authors and Readers

Alesha Bonser – Reading Women: The Impact of the Early 20th Century Periodical Press 

Michelle Fisher – What Impact did the First World War Have on Women Authors?

Anne Mellar – Lost and Found: Working Class Writers and Mainstream Publishers in 1930s Britain 

Sonali Lakhotia – Hemingway: A Study of the Celebrity Author in the Early 20th Century


Transitions in Publishing Culture

Grace Gleave– The Feminist Press in the Late 19th Century

Frankie Mace – Up Close on Close Up: Publishing Culture and Cinema in Britain 1927-33

Steve Hare - Posted Abroad: Penguins in World War II 

Ellie Cheele – The Booker Prize: Scandal, Controversy and Marketing Tool


Print, Empire and Nation

Lucy Warwick –  Consuming Knowledge: Produce from the Empire in The Penny Magazine

Emma Fay – Publishing the Irish Identity

Seán Dullea –‘More Than the Sum of its Articles’: Publishing National Biography in Irish

Lisa Smars – The Reading Culture in Nigeria


Censorship and Propaganda

Rosie Bick  –Private Grief and Public Propaganda: Rudyard Kipling during WWI

Lauren Nesworthy – The Role of Obscenity Trials in Liberalising American Publishing

Ellie Reedy – Censorship in a Chinese Context: Jung Chang’s Wild Swans


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Articles have been written and produced by students on the History and Culture of Publishing module of the MA in Publishing and the MA in Book History and Publishing Culture, together with  PhD students in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University.