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Literary Heritage: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic
David Rudrum & Helen Williams
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003593157
Literary Heritage examines the literary heritage sector in the post-pandemic moment. The book argues that this is a unique time for literary heritage management and demonstrates that the key to understanding it is an analysis of the transformations that took place because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Through an analysis of literary heritage sites across the UK’s four nations, this study provides an overview of practice from sites managed by national organisations as well as independent museums. Presenting a quantitative and qualitative overview of the challenges faced by the sector in the wake of the pandemic, Rudrum and Williams explore the innovations literary heritage organisations initiated in response. The book displays the wealth of ingenuity that was on display during this trying moment for the sector. It also looks forward to the new normal in the industry: a move towards the outdoors, increased use of online engagement, and creative arts and community programming that brings the literary past to the political present. Featuring interviews with 16 heritage practitioners, the book shares examples of best practice in the hope that lessons will be learned from the enforced closures prompted by the pandemic.
Literary Heritage will be of great interest to academics and students working in Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, and English Literature. It will also appeal to a broad readership of cultural heritage professionals.
Literary Treason: Authors on Trial in the Wake of the Second World War
Marius Hentea
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350406957
The end of the Second World War created a major reckoning in a number of societies. This book explores the ways in which authors were singled out for postwar political and literary trials for their wartime conduct.
Although many writers considered themselves part of a global “republic of letters,” at the end of the Second World War authors and intellectuals were singled out by national courts for the crime of expressing an opinion either in print or over the radio. The treason trials of high-profile writers were symbolic events and staged as such in various countries; these trials were meant to corral other writers and intellectuals into order and thus set the stage for the politicization of authorship in the latter part of the decade.
With a sweeping geographic range, this book examines how “mere words” were cast as treason and how the courts or security services determined the acceptable contours of writing in the postwar period.
Women Poets, Male Publishers: Myth vs. Market in Post-1960s Britain
Lise Jaillant
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84154-5
We are often told that the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s led to the rediscovery of forgotten women writers. Without feminist presses such as Virago, these women would have sunk into obscurity. Thanks to Carmen Callil and other trailblazing feminist publishers, a canon of women’s literature emerged, and living writers managed to survive and sometimes thrive in a literary marketplace that had so far been dominated by men. Although obstacles remained, the story is one of the triumphs over a misogynistic publishing industry—a sector that had once sought to erase women writers of the past, marginalise living authors, and close the doors to any future legacy.
There are two problems with this oft-repeated story. First, it focuses mainly on fiction rather than poetry (founded in 1973, Virago did not start publishing poetry until the early 1980s). Second, it neglects the major role that conservative male publishers played in (re)discovering women poets in post-1960s Britain. With the growing influence of the Women’s Liberation movement, these publishers realised that there was a growing market for poetry by women. At the same time, the Arts Council of Great Britain started pushing for more diversity, nudging its “clients” to make more room for women and ethnic minorities.
Drawing on extensive archival work and oral history interviews, this open access book pushes the boundaries of a scholarship that has focused mainly on women’s poetry in relation to women’s presses. Archival documents show the influence of the Arts Council and the market in pushing conservative publishers towards more diversity. This evolution has had long-term consequences on the canon of women’s poetry, a canon that was largely shaped by conservative publishing houses rather than radical feminist presses.
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