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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: plot thickens
    sub title: illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier
  name:
    name part: Leighton, Mary Elizabeth
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne)
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ohu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Mary Elizabeth Leighton & Lisa Surridge.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Serialized fiction
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Illustrated periodicals
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature publishing
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
  classification: PR878.S46 L45 2019
  classification: 823/.809
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Series in Victorian Studies
  identifier: 9780821423349
  identifier: 0821423347
  identifier: 9780821446492
  identifier: 0821446495
  identifier: 2018043199
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181001
    record change date: 20190422105054.0
    record identifier: in00004051972