Helen Cousins

The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader (eBook, ePUB)

Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading
Redaktion: Ramone, Jenni

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In January 2004, daytime television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan launched their book club and sparked debate about the way people in Britain, from the general reader to publishers to the literati, thought about books and reading. The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader brings together historians of the book, literature scholars, and specialists in media and cultural studies to examine the effect of the club on reading practices and the publishing and promotion of books. Beginning with an analysis of the book club's history and its ongoing development in relation to other reading groups worldwide including Oprah's, the editors consider issues of book marketing and genre. Further chapters explore the effects of the mass-broadcast celebrity book club on society, literature and its marketing, and popular culture. Contributors ask how readers discuss books, judge value and make choices. The collection addresses questions of authorship, authority and canon in texts connected by theme or genre including the postcolonial exotic, disability and representations of the body, food books, and domesticity. In addition, book club author Andrew Smith shares his experiences in a fascinating interview.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317017790
• Artikelnr.: 44863445

Autorenporträt

Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins are both senior lecturers in English at Newman University College, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: on readers and reading
Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins; Part 1 The Richard & Judy Book Club Readers: Suspicious minds: Richard & Judy's Book Club and its resistant readers
Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo; Entertainment media
risk and the experience commodity
Nickianne Moody; Different spaces
same old stories? On being a reader in the Richard & Judy Book Club
Alex Kendall and Julian McDougall; Richard and Judy behind bars
Jenny Hartley. Part 2 Reading the Richard & Judy Book Club Selections: You can't judge a book by its coverage: the body that writes and the television book club
Kerry Myler; 'Not the normal kind of chicklit'? Richard & Judy and the feminised middlebrow
Beth Driscoll; The roles of the storytellers: Richard and Judy read The Jane Austen Book Club
Jenni Ramone; A good authentic read: exoticism in the postcolonial novels of the Richard & Judy Book Club
Helen Cousins; The delicious side of the story: culinary writing
cultural contexts and the club
Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Part 3 After The Richard & Judy Book Club: 'What really counts is the story': interview with Andrew Smith
author of Moondust (February 10
2010)
Jenni Ramone; Ten of thousands: the TV book club
Helen Cousins; Appendix; Index.