Cover; Titel; Imprint; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 POINT OF DEPARTURE: SITUATING THE MAGAZINE SERIAL; 1.1 Mapping the Field; 1.2 Researching Nineteenth-Century Serials; 1.3 Analyzing Nineteenth-Century Serials; 2 APPROACHING SERIALITY: THE SERIAL AS MEDIUM; 3 TAKING STOCK: SOCIETY AND THE LITERARY MARKETPLACE; 3.1 Social Formations and Cultural Hierarchization; 3.2 Magazines on the Rise; 4 NEGOTIATING SERIALITY'S DEMANDS; 4.1 Serial Authorship: From Anonymous Contributor to Celebrity Authors
4.2 Serial Readers: Imagining Communities of Readers and Reading Practices from the Parlor to the Workplace4.3 Serial Modes: Sensationalism, Sentimentalism, and Realism; 5 SERIAL STRATEGIES AT WORK: THREE EXAMPLES FROM WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS'S SERIAL FICTION; 5.1 Writing Strategies; 5.2 Intertextual References in "Their Wedding Journey"; 5.3 The Limits of Serial Devices in "A Modern Instance"; 5.4 The Episodic Sketches of "The World of Chance"; 6 APPROACHING CLOSURE: THE RISE OF THE SHORT STORY AS A MEDIA SHIFT; 7 CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Backcover
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