Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

• Main Author: Weber, Millicent (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Directions in Book History
• Subjects: Books-History.; British literature.; Mass media.; Communication.; History of the Book.; British and Irish Literature.; Media Sociology.

There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations, representations, and celebrations of lit...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Recognising Literary Festivals
• 3. Patterns of Attendance and Experience
• 4. Online and Onsite: Intersections in Embodied and Digital Engagement
• 5. Festival as Policy Vehicle: Creative Industries, Creative Cities and the Creative Class
• 6. Festival as Field: Literary Festivals as Instantiations of Larger Cultural Spaces
• 7. Conclusion: Rules of the Game.