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This article establishes a quantitative and qualitative model of SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) publisher ‘Tiers’, in order to enable researchers and cultural policy makers to have a more granular understanding of the impact of publisher size. Through an aggregated set of case studies deriving from the UK, the article also develops an understanding of how to build a cultural support model for publishing based on publisher size, sustainability and company life cycle. What the Tiers m...

In recent decades, the figure of the migrant in France has become synonymous in media and certain public discourses with Arab economic immigration from North Africa. However, as numerous critics have noted, the widespread presence of Maghrebis in France predates decolonization, meaning that since the 1960s many of those deemed ‘migrants’ have in fact been French nationals born in the Hexagon. The question of migration is made more complex because the high profile associated with Arab Maghrebi...

In the latter part of 1821, the Dumfries-shire and Galloway Monthly Magazine ran a three-part short fiction under the title “The Highland Chieftain Steam Packet.” The series turns the exciting novelty of steam travel into a framing device for a number of inset tales, thus replicating the format of John Galt’s “The Steam-Boat,” which had been appearing in serialized form in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine since February that year. In this case, the tales are told from the decks of the real-lif...

This commentary upon the American Literary History special issue “Literature and Publishing, 1945–2020” examines its elucidatory set of contributing articles through the lenses of disciplinarity, periodization, and methodological positioning. Following an opening discussion of Raven Leilani’s novel Luster (2020), the commentary addresses the articulations made of a purported scholarly gap in the approach to contemporary publishing, of claims for disciplinarity, and of microperiodization of th...