Titlebook: Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture; Millicent Weber Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Book priz

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Recognising Literary Festivals,rship, reader, and consumer, drawn from across literary studies and book history, media and communications studies, and theatre and performance studies, to develop a new conceptual framework for literary festival audience experience. These understandings are used to supplement and develop theorisati

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Patterns of Attendance and Experience, framework proposed in Chap. .. In doing so, this chapter identifies and explores the ways in which literary festivals enable different forms of engagement with literary culture and communities, and audience members’ personal experiences and interpretations of this engagement. The data collected dem

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Online and Onsite: Intersections in Embodied and Digital Engagement,gagement with literary culture intersect and enhance one another. It explores connections between the uptake of digital culture and literary festivals’ increasing popularity, and argues that both live and mediatised forms of contemporary engagement with literary culture sit within a tradition of rea

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Festival as Policy Vehicle: Creative Industries, Creative Cities, and the Creative Class,egeneration—and the manner in which literary festivals are promoted. Combining cultural, social, and economic goals, and demanding creative producers’ constant mediation between these often divergent priorities, creative industries discourse parallels literary festivals’ negotiation of a field struc

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Conclusion: Rules of the Game,uals’ experiences and by gathering the ‘ethnographic data’ that English (2002:127) regards as crucial to understanding contemporary cultural phenomena. This chapter provides a concluding overview of how the book has explored the ways in which literary festivals demonstrably make a space in which per

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2634-6117 and experiences of literary festival audiences have been a r.There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects

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Introduction,a brief contextual history of contemporary literary festivals. It provides a brief introduction to configuring forces, developed and analysed in full later in the volume, that shape the ways these festivals function, including personal meaningfulness, digital disruption, political involvement, and social exclusion.