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Definition of Midlist
1. Adjective. (publishing of a book or author) Unlikely to be more than modestly successful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Midlist
1. a section of a publisher's list of current titles [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midlist
Literary usage of Midlist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1888)
"midlist rial serv'ce required of all men?" I answered. " The religious practices
of the people have naturally changed considerably in a century," replied ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1843)
"... from whom his usually tender heart stood back, laughed, danced, and conversed,
and fascinated every hearer but her husband, in whose ears the midlist ..."
3. Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts : the by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (1998)
"And the first four books I wrote will never be published anyway, they weren't
anything, they weren't midlist, they weren't anything, they were just a ..."
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