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Jason Ensor Jason Ensor i(A116407 works by) (a.k.a. Jason Donald Ensor)
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1 2 y separately published work icon Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970 : The Getting of Bookselling Wisdom Jason Ensor , London : Anthem Press , 2012 Z1907070 2012 single work criticism 'This book documents a distinctive chapter in the history of Australian book publishing as it addresses how the company dealt with the tension between aspirational literary nationalism and the requirements of turning a profit while attempting to get inside the UK literary market. As well as detailing Angus & Robertson's complete international relations, the book argues that the company's international business was a much larger, more successful and complicated business than has been acknowledged by previous scholars. It questions the ways in which Angus & Robertson replicated, challenged or transformed the often highly criticised commercial practices of British publishers in order to develop an export trade for Australian books in the United Kingdom.'
Source: Publisher's website http://www.anthempress.com/angus-and-robertson-and-the-british-trade-in-australian-books-1930-1970 (Sighted 12/12/2012)
1 Angus & Robertson and the Case of the 'Bombshell' Salesman Jason Ensor , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 35 no. 2 2011; (p. 69-79) Ensor discusses Angus & Robertson's attempts to develop its market in the post-war British book trade through the employment of a travelling salesamn, Bernard Robinson, to generate sales outside the metropoliatn area of London.
1 y separately published work icon Places of Publication and the Australian Book Trade: A Study of Angus & Robertson's London Office, 1938-1970 Jason Ensor , Perth : 2010 Z1791722 2010 single work thesis 'Places of Publication is a sustained study of the practice of Angus & Robertson's London office as publishers and exporters / importers, using a mixed-methods approach combining the statistical analysis of bibliographic data with an interpretative history of primary resource materials. Although this thesis is the fourth to interrogate the extensive Mitchell Library holdings of the Angus & Robertson archives, it is the first whose central concern is the company's production and distribution of Australian titles within the United Kingdom and further afield through its London office. Often indicated as worthy of further investigation, this is an area of history which to date has only been broadly scoped without reference to key (often restricted) archival volumes. Exploring the premise that there are cultural and commercial links between books produced at home and books imported from overseas, this study examines whether an Australian publisher could avoid becoming subject to the same socio-economic forces that British publishers claimed underpinned their international trade. Indeed, within the historical context of a strong British presence in Australian publishing and bookselling across the course of the twentieth century, this thesis asks in what ways did Angus & Robertson replicate, challenge or transform the often highly-criticised commercial practices of British publishers in order to develop an export trade for Australian books in the United Kingdom?'
Source: Author's abstract
1 1 'A Policy of Splendid Isolation' : Angus and Robertson, George G. Harrap and the Politics of Co-Operation in the Australian Book Trade During the Late 1930s Jason Ensor , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 34 no. 1 2010; (p. 34-42)
1 Still Waters Run Deep : Empirical Methods and the Migration Patterns of Regional Publishers' Authors and Titles within Australian Literature Jason Ensor , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 23 no. 2 2009; (p. 197-208)
1 Is a Picture Worth 10,175 Australian Novels? Jason Ensor , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Resourceful Reading : The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture 2009; (p. 240-273) 'This chapter will explore the work behind the charting. This will include the necessary apologetics and methodological uncertainties that contextualise analytic labour, and it will put forward an alternative reading of new empiricism which suggests that internet and computing technologies are shaping the cultural grammar of the domain of Australian literature in ways yet to be fully understood but which need to be corralled methodologically. It will propose that in the contemporary humanities environment new empiricism should continue to provide important "reference points from which qualitative data can be understood" and a way for literary scholars to visualise quantitative research but from within the framework of an Australian Charter for the Computer-Based Representation of Literary History.' (244)
1 The Novel, the Implicated Reader and Australian Literary Cultures, 1950-2008 Richard Nile , Jason Ensor , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 517-548)
1 Reprints, International Markets and Local Literary Taste: New Empiricism and Australian Literature Jason Ensor , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2008; (p. 198-218) 'Taking a cue from Franco Moretti's research, my article applies statistical methods to probe the history of publishing Australian novels both locally and internationally. By temporarily suspending our discipline's preoccupation with close readings and canonical judgements, I aim to demonstrate how the computational analysis of large-scale publication data about Australian novels can also provoke alternative kinds of, and responses to, Australian literary history.' (Author's abstract)
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