All Outputs (85)

Women Readers and the Scottish Imaginary (2020)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A., Finkelstein, D., & Fleming, L. (2020). Women Readers and the Scottish Imaginary. In M. Pittin-Hedon (Ed.), Women and Scotland: Literature, culture, politics. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche Compté. https://doi.org/10.4000/books

No abstract available.

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)

No abstract available.

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 Scottish archive of print and publishing records. (2016)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2016). The Scottish archive of print and publishing records. History Scotland, 6.1, 28

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

No abstract available.

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.

What Is My Country? small-nation publishing (2012)
Journal Article
McCleery, A., & Bold, M. R. (2012). What Is My Country? small-nation publishing. Journal of Irish and Scottish studies, 6, 115-131

Intangible cultural heritage: living culture in Scotland - summary report. (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
McCleery, A., McCleery, A., Gunn, L., & Hill, D. (2010). Intangible cultural heritage: living culture in Scotland - summary report

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. (2010). In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth-century Scotland. In K. Halsey, & W. R. Owens (Eds.), The History of Reading: evidence from the British Isles 1750

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

Modernity and nationhood: “Little Magazines” in Scotland. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McCleery, A. (2011). Modernity and nationhood: “Little Magazines” in Scotland. In E. Dymock, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), Scottish & International Modernisms: Relationships and Reconfigurations, 34-46

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). Pa

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

Malawi - a hunger for reading. (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
Acsai, K., McCall, J., & McCleery, A. (2011). Malawi - a hunger for reading

The German paperback tradition and Its Influence. (2010)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2009). The German paperback tradition and Its Influence. In M. C. Kelly, & W. A. Fischer (Eds.), The Book in Germany, 127-144. Merchiston Publishing

One world, new world: one Scotland, many cultures (2010)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A., McCleery, A., Gunn, L., & Hill, D. (2010). One world, new world: one Scotland, many cultures. In M. J. Munro-Landi (Ed.), L'Ecosse et Ses Doubles: Ancien-monde-nouveau monde/ Old world-New world: Scotland and its doubles (315). L'Harmattan

Legions, Laws and Languages: book history and English hegemony. (2010)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2009). Legions, Laws and Languages: book history and English hegemony. In S. Frost, & R. Nix (Eds.), Angles on the English-speaking World, 39-54. Museum Tusculanum Press