Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing

Beyond Serialization
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08985-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: The Nineteenth Century Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vranken, Thomas Lloyd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.