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

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Label

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

Title remainder

illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

Statement of responsibility

Mary Elizabeth Leighton & Lisa Surridge

Title variation

Illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

Creator

• Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, 1971-

Contributor

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

Author

• Surridge, Lisa A., (Lisa Anne), 1963-
• Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, 1971-

Subject

• Englisch
• English fiction
• English fiction
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Fortsetzungsroman
• Great Britain
• Great Britain
• History
• History
• Illustrated periodicals
• Illustrated periodicals
• Illustrated periodicals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Literature publishing
• Literature publishing
• Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Serialized fiction
• Serialized fiction
• Serialized fiction -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
• 1800-1899
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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"--

Member of

• Series in Victorian Studies

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.809

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR878.S46

LC item number

L45 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Series in Victorian studies