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Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction [#170]
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction [#170]
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小説に対する私たちの好みの変遷を知りたければ、過去一世紀に関していえば、ベストセラーにその傾向をうかがい知ることができます。本書では、アメリカとイギリスにおける過去のベストセラーを見ていき、私たちがどんなものを読んできたのか、なぜそれらがベストセラーになったのかを考察します。
   

  • John Sutherland argues that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study.
  • Asks what separates bestsellers from canonical fiction, why some critically-acclaimed novels never make it, and examines what bestsellers reveal about both literary culture and society.
  • Lifts the lid on the 'bestseller industry', and examines what makes a book into a bestseller.
  • Includes lively summaries of bestsellers over the years - including both classic and contemporary novels, alongside some surprising titles and long-forgotten names.
  • Gone with the WindLady Chatterley's LoverThe Blue LagoonPortnoy's Complaint and The Da Vinci Code - these are just some of the bestselling titles that Sutherland discusses.

 
'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading - and why. 
  
John Sutherland shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study. Along the way, he lifts the lid on the bestseller industry, examines what makes a book into a bestseller, and asks what separates bestsellers from canonical fiction. 
  
Exploring the relationship between bestsellers and the fashions, ideologies, and cultural concerns of the day, the book includes short case-studies and lively summaries of bestsellers through the years: from In His Steps - now almost totally forgotten, but the biggest all-time bestseller between 1895 and 1945, to Gone with the Wind and The Andromeda Strain, and The Da Vinci Code

目次: 

Epigraph
List of illustrations

1. Definitions
2. The modern scene
3. Fields and lists
4. The American Bestseller
5. The British Bestseller
6. The Future of the Bestseller: is there one?
Further reading
Index

著者について: 

John Sutherland is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, and Professor of Literature at Caltech. He has published many books, including, most recently, So You Think You Know Jane Austen? and So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy?, and has edited 15 volumes in the Oxford World's Classics series (most recently Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians). He writes and reviews widely, including in the TLS and LRB, and writes regular columns in the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, and Sunday Telegraph. In 2005, he was chair of the Man-Booker fiction prize committee.

"His amiable trawl through the history of popular books is frequently entertaining" - Scott Pack, The Times
  

"breezily entertaining" - Kevin Power, Irish Times (Dublin)
  

"Sutherland effectively challenges the assumption that a book's commercial success somehow invalidates either its author's integrity or the critical acumen of its readers. Instead we are offered a plausible vision of the blockbuster or the bodice-ripper as narrative in its purest form." - Jonathan Keates, TLS

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199214891

著者: 
John Sutherland
ページ
144 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2007年10月
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Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction [#170]

Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction [#170]

Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction [#170]