1st Edition
Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines
By Catherine Delafield
Copyright 2015
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and dissemination of the texts and considers how first publication affected the consumption and reception... Read more
Authorship and the serialized novel. Serialization and the periodical editor. The periodical and the serialized novel. The serialized novel. The afterlife of the serialized novel.
Biography
Catherine Delafield is an independent scholar in the UK who has formerly taught at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Women’s Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth Century Novel.
'... perhaps the most wide-ranging and original contribution to scholarship on the subject since The Victorian Serial by Linda Hughes and Michael Lund back in 1991.' Graham Law, Waseda University, Japan
