Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

• Sociological approach fuses audience research with theoretical analysis of contemporary cultural policy initiatives- Until now the behaviour and experiences of literary festival audiences have been a relatively under-researched aspect of these festivals' constitution- Demarcates the cultural and social potential of literary festivals, and the barriers to participation in these equitable spaces

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Millicent Weber is a Lecturer in English at the Australian National University, where she is part of the Reading at the Interface project team. Her work on literary festivals has been published by scholarly journals Continuum and Convergence and literary magazine Overland, and she co-edited the collection Publishing Means Business: Australian Perspectives (2017).

Inhalt

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.