Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth–Century Novel

Karen Wade (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-47900-4 (ISBN)

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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.

1. Introduction; 2. Accession, retention, and delisting of novels; 3. Selection in practice: a ten-year sample of published novels and their shelf lives; 4. Cents and censorship: representation in Mudie's and its impacts; 5. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-009-47900-8 / 1009479008
ISBN-13	978-1-009-47900-4 / 9781009479004
Zustand	Neuware