Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity 1815-1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition into the modern. This is the first book in a three-part series which will take the reader up to the end of the First World War and will move from London to the global. Serial Forms sets out the theoretical and historical basis for all the three volumes. It suggests that the growing importance and determining power of the form of seriality is a result of the parallel and connected development of a news culture alongside an emergent popular culture of historicism. Through serial...