Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960sThe romantic idea of the writer as an isolated genius has been discredited, but there are few empirical studies documenting the role of gatekeeping in the literary process. How do friends, agents, editors, translators, small publishers, and reviewers not to mention the changes in technology and the publishing industry shape the literary process? This matrix is further complicated when books cross cultural and language barriers, that is, when they