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In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers' hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histories of this period position the writings of Ihara Saikaku at center stage, largely neglecting the breadth of popular prose.In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres. Moretti explores how booksellers sparked interest among readers across the spectrum of literacies and demonstrates how they tantalized consumers with vital ethical, religious, societal, and interpersonal knowledge. She recasts books as tools for knowledge making, arguing that popular prose engaged its audience cognitively as well as aesthetically and emotionally to satisfy a burgeoning curiosity about the world. Crucially, Moretti shows, readers experienced entertainment within the didactic, finding pleasure in the profit gained from acquiring knowledge by interacting with transformative literature. Drawing on a rich variety of archival materials to present a vivid portrait of seventeenth-century Japanese publishing, Pleasure in Profit also speaks to broader conversations about the category of the literary by offering a new view of popular prose that celebrates plurality.

Japanese prose literature --- Popular literature --- History and criticism --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Japanese literature

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While the term 'bestseller' explicitly relates books to sales, commercially successful books are also products of individual creative work. This Element presents a new perspective on the relationship between art and the market, with particular reference to bestselling writers and books. We examine some existing perspectives on art's relationship to the marketplace to trouble persistent binaries that see the two in opposition; we break down the monolith of the marketplace by thinking of it as made up of a range of invested, non-hostile participants such as publishing personnel and readers; we articulate the material dimensions of creative writing in the industry through the words of bestselling writers themselves; and we examine how the existence of bestselling books and writers in the world of letters bears enormous influence on the industry, and on the practice of other writers.

Best sellers --- Fiction --- Popular literature. --- Publishers and publishing. --- Authorship. --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Bestsellers --- Publishing

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive, global and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics and Graphic Novels. A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Essays cover a wide array of intersectional topics including Queer Underground and Alternative comics, Feminist Autobiography, Re-drawing disability, Latina testimony, and re-evaluating the critical whiteness and masculinity of superheroes in this first truly global reference text to gender and sexuality in comics. Comics have always been an important place for the radical exploration of feminist and non-binary sexualities and identities, and the growth of non-normative comic book traditions as a field of inquiry makes this an essential text for upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers studying Comics Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies.

Comic books, strips, etc. --- Graphic novels --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Graphic novels. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- Comic strips --- Comics --- Funnies --- Manga (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhua (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhwa (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Serial picture books --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Wit and humor, Pictorial --- History and criticism. --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Gender identity in literature --- Sex in literature --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Comic books, strips, etc. - History and criticism --- Graphic novels - History and criticism

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This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.

Books—History. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Creative writing. --- Technology in literature. --- Culture. --- Technology. --- History of the Book. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Creative Writing. --- Literature and Technology/Media. --- Culture and Technology. --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Writing (Authorship) --- Authorship --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Social aspects --- History of the Book --- Nineteenth-Century Literature --- Creative Writing --- Literature and Technology/Media --- Culture and Technology --- Literature and Technology --- literary culture --- publishing culture --- literary advice manuals --- creative writing advice --- self-help books --- popular literature --- writing podcasts --- reading communities --- commercial writing culture --- popular amateur writing culture --- Open Access --- Literature: history & criticism --- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 --- Creative writing & creative writing guides --- Literary studies: general --- Cultural studies --- Books --- Literature, Modern --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Technology --- Literature and Technology. --- Science, Technology and Society. --- History. --- 19th century. --- Sociological aspects. --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Literature and mass media --- Literature --- Sociology of technology --- Sociology