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Overview
Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first comprehensive study of the publication of installment fiction in Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in the last decades of the 19th century. A detailed description of the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form.
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Law (English studies, Waseda U., Tokyo) shows how serial publication in syndicates of weekly news miscellanies throughout the British Empire was important in cultural and economic terms. A descriptive history of the rise and decline of the practice of syndication is followed by chapters that discuss its implications for readership, authorship, and the fictional form. Coverage includes well-known novelists, such as Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens as well as "newspaper novelists" such as David Pae and Mary Elizabeth Braddon who published mostly through the weeklies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Product Details
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Graham Law is Professor in English Studies, Waseda University.
Table of Contents
Part I: Context
• Serial Fiction
• Part II: Narrative
• Before Tillotsons
• Part III: Analysis
• Readership
• Authorship
• Genre