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Author
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Serialization was a form of publication used extensively by many Victorian writers, although it was primarily associated with more dramatic and sensational novelists than George Eliot. Reviewers of Eliot's Middlemarch noted that many serial installments would "leave their heroine in a position of perplexity or peril. Either she has run away from home, or is left on London Bridge with only fourpence-halfpenny and an opera cloak; or her soul has been...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making. These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex...
7) The reenchantment of nineteenth-century fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, and serialization
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English