Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera

by JenniferHayward (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $45.21

  Ever since the 1830s, 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.