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Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar (2019)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2019). Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar. Journal of Modern Literature, 43(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.03

Archival sources provide much of the basis for a consideration of the myriad methods that UK publishers employed to avoid prosecution for obscenity. In turn, the UK legal authorities took a collusive (and cosy) approach to the issue, moving only to p... Read More about Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar.

Publishing History (2019)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2019). Publishing History. In A. Phillips, & M. Bhaskar (Eds.), Oxford handbook of publishing. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

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Publishing. (2019)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2019). Publishing. In A. Nash, C. Squires, & I. Willison (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol.7 The Twentieth Century and Beyond, (146-190). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

No abstract available.

Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa (2018)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2018). Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 44(3), 507-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2018.1452420

The title of this essay is taken from the 1975 Penguin African Library revised edition of Antony Martin’s ‘Minding Their Own Business: Zambia’s Struggle against Western Control’. This article exploits archival evidence to highlight Penguin’s distinct... Read More about Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa.

The book in the long twentieth century (2014)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2014). The book in the long twentieth century. In L. Howsam (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (162-180). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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The trial of Alexander Trocchi. (2013)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2013). The trial of Alexander Trocchi. In E. Bell, & L. Gunn (Eds.), The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution?, 135-142. Rodopi

The travels and trials of Lady Chatterley's Lover. (2013)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2013). The travels and trials of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In G. Donaldson, & W. Wootten (Eds.), Reading Penguin: A critical anthology, 27-48. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972 (2013)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2013). Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 48(1), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989412470950

This article examines the trading structures within which UK publishers operated in the markets of Empire and Commonwealth and, in doing so, concentrates on the development there of Penguin Books. It proposes a model of this development mapped onto a... Read More about Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972.

ICH Scotland: a digital heritage project (2011)
Journal Article
Hill, D., Gunn, L., McCleery, A., & McCleery, A. (2011). ICH Scotland: a digital heritage project. Levend Erfgoed: Vakblad voor public folklore & public history, 8, 14-21

Changing audiences: the case of the Penguin "Ulysses". (2011)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2011). Changing audiences: the case of the Penguin "Ulysses". In G. Allen, C. Griffin, & M. O'Connell (Eds.), Readings on audience and textual materiality (131-142). Chatto and Pickering

Literary heritage and intangible cultural heritage. (2011)
Conference Proceeding
McCleery, A. (2011). Literary heritage and intangible cultural heritage. In R. Amoêda, S. Lira, & C. Pinheiro (Eds.), Sharing Cultures 2011: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intangible Heritage (Lisbon: Greenlines Institute, 2011) (501-506)

In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland. (2011)
Book Chapter
Fleming, L., McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2011). In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland. In The History of Reading, Volume 2, evidence from the British Isles , c1750-1950, (189-205). Palgrave Macmillan

In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland.