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Economies of Prestige and the Editorial Program Era: Literary Sociology and Tim Groenland's The Art of Editing
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TimGroenland, The Art of Editing: Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, £95.00). Pp. 288. isbn978 1 5013 3827 4.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2021
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Tim Groenland's The Art of Editing is an exciting new addition to the field of literary sociology, making a valuable contribution to a discipline which has seen a resurgence since the turn of the millennium. In his seminal early work in the field, John Sutherland traces the origins of this kind of publishing history to Robert Escarpit's Sociology of Literature (1958), which he describes as the beginning of “modern, serious work” in considering the effects of the literary marketplace on the fiction of a particular era. However, it is the first two decades of the twenty-first century that have seen the most significant growth in sociological studies of literary production, a trend that Alan Liu calls “the resurgent history of the book.” This is a “resurgence” that Liu argues has resulted in “restoring to view … vital nodes in the circuit” of literary production, including “editors, publishers, translators, booksellers,” and many others. This recent growth in scholarly interest in the production and circulation of literary texts includes other significant figures such as James F. English, Mark McGurl, John B. Thompson, Loren Glass, Paul Crosthwaite, and David D. Hall.
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5 See https://web.archive.org/web/20071219100209/http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/12/24/071224on_onlineonly_carver for a digital version of this article. Last accessed 28 Aug. 2019.