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Mudie's Select Library and the shelf life of the nineteenth-century novel / Karen Wade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wade, Karen, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524.
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mudie's Select Library--History.
- Mudie's Select Library.
- Libraries--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Libraries.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Books and reading.
- Fiction--Appreciation--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (95 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Mudie's Select Library was a major nineteenth-century literary institution. Substantially larger than its competitors, the library leveraged regional and global distribution networks and close commercial ties with publishers which allowed it to maintain a key position within the British publishing industry. In its heyday, it was widely believed that novelists and publishers were required to conform to aesthetic, moral and formal standards established by Mudie's, or risk the rejection and consequent failure of their books. However, the lack of a comprehensive study of the library's holdings leaves open questions about what the library actually stocked, and to what extent the library could determine a novel's fate. This Element describes a data analysis of a collection of Mudie's catalogues spanning eighty years, in order to reassess understandings of the library's role in the nineteenth-century publishing industry. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jan 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9781009478960
- 1009478966
- 9781009478984
- 1009478982
- 9781009478991
- 1009478990
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access. Unrestricted online access
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