... monopolized, “established scholars” came to mean Edel and Edel alone, who even admitted, “tell all comers that I am doing Everything!” (187). This is exceptional work. Amy Blair’s Reading Up begins with an account of Hamilton Wright Mabie’s ten-year stint as literary advisor for the Ladies Home...

... by the beginning of the twentieth century (Selling Culture: Maga- zines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century, 74–75). 10 Hamilton Wright Mabie, Books and Culture (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1896), 18–19. 11 Jesse Lee Bennett, What Books Can Do FOR YOU: A Sketch Map of the Frontiers...