Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Contexts, or Debating the Prize
1. The Booker Prize as Problem under Academic Scrutiny
2. Attention and Participants’ Perspectives on Literary Interaction
3. The Booker and Public Attention: The History of the Booker as a History of Problems
Part II: Case Studies, or Prizing Debate
4. Leading the Booker Prize into the New Millennium
5. Literary Outsiders and Odd Titles: A New Era of the Booker Prize
6. 40 Years of Booker Choice: Between “Freshness” and “Literary Magic”
7. Beyond “the end of its natural ‘front list’ life”: The Booker and the Afterlife of Novels
Conclusion
Appendix
Works Cited: Academic Criticism
Works Cited: Journalistic and Other Sources