Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera
- ISBN-10
- 0813170028
- ISBN-13
- 9780813170022
- Series
- Consuming Pleasures
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-01-01
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Author
- Jennifer Poole Hayward
Description
""To be continued... "" Whether these words fall at a season-ending episode of Star Trek or a TV commercial flirtation between coffee-loving neighbors, true fans find them impossible to resist. Ever since the 1830's, when Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers enticed a mass market for fiction, the serial has been a popular means of snaring avid audiences. Jennifer Hayward establishes serial fiction as a distinct genre -- one defined by the activities of its audience rather than by the formal qualities of the text. Ranging from installment novels, mysteries, and detective fiction of the 1800's.
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