Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Part I: Contexts, or Debating the Prize
6. 1. The Booker Prize as Problem under Academic Scrutiny 23
7. 2. Attention and Participants’ Perspectives on Literary Interaction 49
8. 3. The Booker and Public Attention: The History of the Booker as a History of Problems 81
9. Part II: Case Studies, or Prizing Debate
10. 4. Leading the Booker Prize into the New Millennium 113
11. 5. Literary Outsiders and Odd Titles: A New Era of the Booker Prize 179
12. 6. 40 Years of Booker Choice: Between “Freshness” and “Literary Magic” 245
13. 7. Beyond “the end of its natural ‘front list’ life”: The Booker and the Afterlife of Novels 311
14. Conclusion 327
15. Appendix 335
16. Works Cited: Academic Criticism 359
17. Works Cited: Journalistic and Other Sources 367