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| - | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em"> Origins of the [[bestseller]] system: "A novel which sold well in the [[18th century in literature|eighteenth century]] - and even the most successful book rarely sold more than a few thousand copies - did so within a fairly closed circle of readers, many of whom as writers also participated in deciding the prevailing criteria of [[literary merit|literary excellence]]." -- page 21. | + | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em"> The Irish writer [[Frank O'Connor]] celebrated the [[short story]] in his ''[[Lonely Voice]]'', believing that it dealt best with isolated individuals, particularly those upon society's fringes. --[[Harold Bloom]] in ''[[How to Read and Why]]''. |
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| - | "By the mid-nineteenth century [[cheap]]er [[edition]]s and improved access to reading material through subscriptions and in France, through reading rooms, pushed sales of a popular novel as high as 10,000 copies. Although critics continued to function as the [[arbiters of taste]], the critical [[elite]] could no longer claim literature to be their exclusive property." -- page 22. | + | |
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| - | Both quotes are from ''The Myth of Superwoman : Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States'' (1990) by [[Resa L. Dudovitz]] | + | |
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The Irish writer Frank O'Connor celebrated the short story in his Lonely Voice, believing that it dealt best with isolated individuals, particularly those upon society's fringes. --Harold Bloom in How to Read and Why.
