Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialization

ISBN-13: 9781032089850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Thomas Lloyd Vranken

Opis

Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialization explores how, 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.

Spis treści

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-Siècle 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

O autorze

Thomas Vranken is a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. His work on nineteenth-century periodicals, literature, and culture has appeared in journals such as PMLA, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Victorian Periodicals Review. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne.