Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press

Download or read book Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press written by G. Law and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-10-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 instalment 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 nineteenth 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.