Literary experiments in magazine publishing : beyond serialization
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Literary experiments in magazine publishing : beyond serialization
（Nineteenth century series）
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
Available at 1 libraries
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Chronology: p. [xi]-xvi
Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-148) and index
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Description
As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in particular) on the ways in which the periodical press first published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. What led magazines to publish excerpts from a forthcoming book, or an entire novel in a single issue, or a discontinuous short-story series? How did these experimental modes affect the act of reading? Drawing on a range of archival and other primary sources, Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialization addresses these and other questions.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Serialisation and its Discontents .
Chapter One: Articles for Sale: Excerpting Huckleberry Finn in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Chapter Two: Assuming a Skeptical Attitude: Dorian Gray as Pseudo-Book in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Chapter Three: Between Intimacy and Distance: The Return of Sherlock Holmes as the Ideal Compromise in The Strand and Collier's
Postscript: The Final Instalment
Appendix A: Discussions of Serialisation in Fin-de-Siecle Magazines
Appendix B: Walter Dill Scott's 'The Psychological Value of Fusion'
Appendix C: Correspondence Surrounding the Magazine Publication of Huckleberry Finn, Dorian Gray, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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