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Welcome to Rice University Press
Rice University Press launches its new
series, Literature by Design: British and American Books
1880-1930,
with this reissue of the nineteenth-century underground classic by
Frank Gelett Burgess, Le Petit Journal des Refusées. This
beautiful facsimile edition includes an enlightening afterword by the
noted scholar Johanna Drucker, who details the intellectual ferment of
Burgess’s time, its accompanying revolution in expressive book design,
and places this work in a worldwide cultural context with the works of
such luminaries as Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and Stéphane
Mallarmé.
Rice University Press has returned from a decade-long hiatus to explore new models of peer-reviewed scholarship for the 21st century. Our publications are viewable on line, for free, and available in printed-book form at reasonable cost. Editorially, we operate as a traditional university press does, subjecting submitted manuscripts to rigorous peer review, and thoroughly editing our books for publication; but our publishing and marketing operation is experimental and highly non-traditional. The latter circumstance allows us to evaluate manuscripts purely on their intellectual merit, without regard for production costs or potential market. Feel free to explore our site and learn about our revolutionary approach to academic publishing.
