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The plot thickens : illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

Title

The plot thickens : illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier / Mary Elizabeth Leighton & Lisa Surridge.

Author

Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, 1971-

Publication

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
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Additional Authors

Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963-

Description

xvi, 331 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Series in Victorian studies

Uniform Title

Series in Victorian Studies.

Alternative Title

Illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

Subjects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Material Matters: The Illustrated Victorian Serial -- Imagining the Self: Illustration and the Technology of Selfhood in David Copperfield and Cousin Phillis -- Picturing the Past: Illustration and the Making of History in The Tower of London, Vanity Fair, and A Tale of Two Cities -- Hallowing the Everyday: Illustration and Realism in Wives and Daughters, Mistress and Maid, and The Small House at Allington -- Arousing the Nerves: Illustration and Sensation in The Notting Hill Mystery, Griffith Gaunt, and The Law and the Lady -- From Peter Ibbetson to Pickwick and Back: The Lives and Afterlives of Illustrated Victorian Serials.

Call Number

JFE 19-4209

ISBN

9780821423349
0821423347
9780821446492 (canceled/invalid)
0821446495 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018043199
40028807271
40028805695

OCLC

1031341931

Author

Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, 1971- author.

Title

The plot thickens : illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier / Mary Elizabeth Leighton & Lisa Surridge.

Publisher

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Series in Victorian studies

Series in Victorian Studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963- author.

Other Standard Identifier

40028807271

40028805695

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4209

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