Acts of Judgment and the Small Press: Learning from F.R. Leavis

Wilson, L. 2020. Acts of Judgment and the Small Press: Learning from F.R. Leavis. in: Colby, G. and Marczewska, K. (ed.) The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 219-236

Chapter titleActs of Judgment and the Small Press: Learning from F.R. Leavis
AuthorsWilson, L.
EditorsColby, G. and Marczewska, K.
Abstract

Personal acts of evaluative judgment are at the heart of the way current small and independent publishers of fiction in the UK define themselves. This often goes hand in hand with their ethical commitment to broadening and diversifying work published without any acknowledgement, however, that this might be in tension with acts of personal judgment. Literary studies, though, has much to say about this tension. By returning to the question of judgment at the beginning of academic literary criticism in the UK – in the work of F.R. Leavis and Scrutiny – this chapter illuminates some of the dangers for small presses in the prioritisation of evaluative judgment at the same time as showing that the literary critical has always been imbricated with acts of publishing.

Keywordssmall press
evaluative judgment
F.R. Leavis
Book titleThe Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible
Page range219-236
Year2020
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication dates
Published12 Feb 2021
Place of publicationBasingstoke
SeriesNew Directions in Book History
ISBN9783030487836
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Web address (URL)https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030487836

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