Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first comprehensive study of the publication of instalment fiction in Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in the last decades of the nineteenth century. A detailed description of the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form.
Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations PART I: CONTEXT Serial Fiction PART II: NARRATIVE Before Tillotsons Tillotsons Rivals of Tillotsons PART III: ANALYSIS Readership Authorship Genre Notes Appendix: Serialization Tables Works Cited Index
