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1Traditionally, literary studies have not focused on the production of literature. Similarly, editorial work or marketing practices are often not taken into account. The study of “serious” literary works, which has normally followed the practice of close reading, has always put the emphasis on the subject’s intrinsically literary character: “the work produced according to the logic of a strongly autonomous field calls for a differential, distinctive perception, attentive to deviations from other works, contemporary or past” (Bourdieu, 1994: 77, our translation). Only literary works belonging to the ‘subfield of large-scale production’ (Bourdieu, 1995: 121), produced according to an explicitly economic logic, that has especially drawn the attention of literary scholars to the mechanisms of the literary market. However, in the last two decades, there has been an increasing number of analyses focusing on this part of the literary system, namely the book market.

2According to Ann Steiner, the book market “is complex and offers numerous examples of simultaneous

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