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Author Rojek, Janina

Title 'A Feast That Lasts a Year or Two' : Writing, Reading, and Editing Serials in the 'Quality Monthlies'
Published Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (294 pages)
Series American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v. 296
American Studies - A Monograph Series
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284)
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American fiction
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783825377250
3825377253