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Distant Aesthetics: Amazon's Impacts on the Aesthetic of the Novel206 views
Author
Williams, Thomas, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Ganguly, Debjani, University of Virginia
Abstract
This thesis will examine the effect that the books retailer, Amazon, has had on the Booker Prize. Specifically, it will explore the ways that Amazon has shaped the kinds of books that have featured in the Booker Prize’s shortlist and longlist in the years between 1998, when the company launched in Britain, and 2009. My wager is that the Booker Prize, or the "Booker” as I will refer to it in this thesis, has steadily come to recognise a different kind of novel as being worthy of its attention and that it has done so as a consequence of Amazon.
Degree
MA (Master of Arts)
Keywords
amazon.com; amazon; algorithmic culture; digital humanities; booker prize; literary prestige; the novel; contemporary fiction
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Williams, Thomas. Distant Aesthetics: Amazon's Impacts on the Aesthetic of the Novel. University of Virginia, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA (Master of Arts), 2023-04-30, https://doi.org/10.18130/epkq-hd71.
