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100	1		_aWade, Karen, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMudie's Select Library and the shelf life of the nineteenth-century novel / _cKaren Wade.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2025.
300			_a1 online resource (95 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, _x2514-8524
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jan 2025).
506	0		_aOpen Access. _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aMudie'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.
610	2	0	_aMudie's Select Library _xHistory.
650		0	_aLibraries _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aBooks and reading _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aFiction _xAppreciation _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781009478977
830		0	_aCambridge elements. _pElements in publishing and book culture, _x2514-8524.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009478991
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