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The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel

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Title/Author:	The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel/ by Troy J. Bassett.
Author:	Bassett, Troy J.
Description:	XVII, 256 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Books—History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31926-7
ISBN:	9783030319267

The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel
Bassett, Troy J.

The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel[electronic resource] /by Troy J. Bassett. - 1st ed. 2020. - XVII, 256 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.online resource. - New Directions in Book History,2634-6117. - New Directions in Book History,.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Production of Multi-Volume Fiction, 1837–1898 -- Chapter 3: Publishing the Three-Volume Novel: The Experience of Richard Bentley and Son -- Chapter 4: Buying, Renting, and Selling the Multi-Volume Novel: The Economics of W. H. Smith and Son’s Subscription Library -- Chapter 5: De-Monopolizing Literary Space: Alternatives to the Three-Volume Novel.

Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s. Troy J. Bassett is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian book history and literature and is the creator of the digital humanities project At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901.

ISBN: 9783030319267

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-31926-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Books—History.

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