Serial forms the unfinished project of modernity, 1815-1848 Pettitt, Clare creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2020 2020 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xviii, 348 pages) : illustrations "Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition into the modern. The first book in a three-part series which will take the reader up to the end of the First World War, Serial Forms looks at the rapid expansion of print in London after the Napoleonic Wars. It shows how the historical past and the contemporary moment are emerging into public visibility through serial newsprint, illustrations, performances, shows, and new forms of mediation and it suggests that the growing importance and determining power of the form of seriality is a result of the parallel and connected development of a news culture alongside an emergent popular culture of historicism. Pettitt's attention to the increasingly powerful cultural work of seriality in this period offers a fresh new way of thinking about print, media, literary and art history, as well as political, historical and social categories. The argument of Serial Forms rests on historical and archival material but the book also offers a philosophical and theoretical account of the impact of seriality. This first volume sets out the theoretical and historical basis for the subsequent two volumes in the series, which move out of London to encompass continental Europe and the imagination of the global. Serial Forms proposes fresh and frame-shifting analyses of familiar texts and authors, such as Scott, Byron and Gaskell, and sets out to change our thinking about new experiences of time and place in the first half of the nineteenth century"--Publisher's description. Yesterday's news -- Scott unbound -- Live Byron -- Vesuvius on the Strand -- Scalar: Pugin, Carlyle, Dickens -- History in miniature -- Biopolitics of seriality. Clare Pettitt. Includes bibliographical references and index. Serial publications History 19th century Publications en série Histoire 19e siècle 19th Century Modern Serial publications 1800-1899 fast Z286.P4 P48 2020 070.5/7209034 Serial forms Pettitt, Clare. Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020 First edition. (OCoLC)1135369234 9780192566164 0192566164 9780192566171 0192566172 9780191894688 0191894680 9780198830429 0198830424 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/33806 YDXIT 200610 20260319182325.7 in00005718664 eng