Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 6 February 2025
- ISBN 9781009479004
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages94 pages
- Size 177x125x6 mm
- Weight 110 g
- Language English 627
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Short description:
Describes Mudie's Select Library, which had a major impact on nineteenth-century fiction, through eighty years of its catalogues.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
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.
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