Mudie's circulating library and the Victorian novel /

Mudie's circulating library and the Victorian novel / Guinevere L. Griest.

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From 1842, when Charles Edward Mudie started lending books at his shop in Bloomsbury, until 1894 when the Library Establishment destroyed the three-decker, fiction maintained a recognized supremacy in the English world of letters. Between 1845 and 1870, when the potential earning power of the novel...

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Main Author: Griest, Guinevere L., 1924-2016
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ℗♭1970.
Subjects:
Mudie's Select Library.
Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > Appreciation > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Libraries > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Books and reading.
English fiction.
Fiction > Appreciation.
Libraries.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The age of Mudie: background
  • Mudie's: the leviathan
  • Mudie's and the three-decker
  • Publishers, profits, and the public
  • Novelists, novels, and the establishment
  • Readers, reactions, and restrictions
  • The collapse
  • The vanishing three-decker
  • The end of an era.

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