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"In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making. These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the placement of illustrations revealed or recalled significant story elements. Victorians' experience of what are now canonical novels thus differed markedly from that of modern readers, who are accustomed to reading single volumes with minimal illustration. Even if modern editions do reproduce illustrations, these do not appear as originally laid out. Modern readers therefore lose a crucial aspect of how Victorians understood plot--as a story delivered in both words and images, over time, and with illustrations playing a key role. In The Plot Thickens, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge uncover this overlooked narrative role of illustrations within Victorian serial fiction. They reveal the intricacy and richness of the form and push us to reconsider our notions of illustration, visual culture, narration, and reading practices in nineteenth-century Britain"--

English fiction --- Serialized fiction --- Illustrated periodicals --- Literature publishing --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain.

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Les débats contemporains sur la place et la fonction de la littérature – et particulièrement du roman – dans la culture, sur son rapport à l'esthétique, au politique, au marché, se fondent sur des oppositions inlassablement récurrentes : la nouveauté opposée à l'accessibilité, la qualité artistique à la communicabilité, l'engagement dans le social au dégagement élitaire. Toutes ces questions, jamais résolues, parce que peut être mal posées, sonnent étrangement familières aux oreilles de qui s'est intéressé à la naissance et aux développements du roman-feuilleton, au xixe siècle ; l'arsenal des arguments échangés semble en effet un écho lointain et affaibli de la querelle qui fit rage, dans les années 1840, autour de ce phénomène précurseur de la médiatisation et de la massification de la littérature qu'est le roman-feuilleton. Les textes que nous reproduisons ici, tirés de journaux, revues, voire de discours parlementaires de l'époque permettent de faire prendre conscience de la précocité, de l'importance et de la permanence de ce débat dans notre culture, ainsi que d'en évaluer les enjeux et les stratégies. Ils éclairent donc une question capitale de l'histoire culturelle du xixe siècle – et de la modernité en général.

Sociology of literature --- Fiction --- French literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- French fiction --- Popular literature --- Roman français --- Paralittérature --- Littérature populaire --- History and criticism --- Periodicals --- Histoire et critique --- Périodiques --- Serialized fiction --- Feuilletons, French --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Roman-feuilleton --- 19e siècle --- -French fiction --- -Politics and literature --- -Serialized fiction --- -#BIBC:ruil --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- French feuilletons --- -History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Roman français --- Paralittérature --- Littérature populaire --- Périodiques --- Aufsatzsammlung. --- Canons littéraires --- Debatte. --- Feuilletons français --- Feuilletons, French. --- Feuilletons. --- Fortsetzungsroman. --- Frans. --- Französisch. --- French fiction. --- Literatur. --- Littérature française --- Littérature --- Politics and literature. --- Politik. --- Politique et littérature --- Politique et littérature. --- Presse et littérature --- Presse et politique --- Presse. --- Romans-feuilletons français --- Romans-feuilletons --- Serialized fiction. --- Histoire et critique. --- Esthétique. --- Histoire --- Appréciation --- 1800-1899. --- Geschichte 1836-1848. --- France. --- #BIBC:ruil --- 19e siècle. --- French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- Serialized fiction - France - History and criticism. --- Feuilletons, French - History and criticism. --- Politics and literature - France - History - 19th century. --- presse --- littérature --- roman-feuilleton

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Every writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author's sales pitch.

Serialized fiction --- Authorship --- Economics and literature --- Publishers and publishing --- History and criticism. --- Marketing --- History --- History --- History --- Zola, Émile, --- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, --- Balzac, Honoré de, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"It's about three Canadian writers and how, under the influence of publishing practices of early-20th- century Canada, they became practitioners of the continuing story (i.e., stories that appeared in instalments)."--

Canadian literature --- Serial publication of books. --- Sequels (Literature) --- Serialized fiction --- Publishers and publishing --- History and criticism. --- History --- McClung, Nellie L., --- Canadian literature. --- Canadian women's fiction. --- L.M. Montgomery. --- Mazo de la Roche. --- Nellie L. McClung. --- continuing stories. --- cultural studies in Canada. --- early 20th-century Canadian women's writing. --- film and television adaptation. --- gender studies. --- literary sequels. --- novel serialization.