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The serial novel developed its own style conventions due to the format of its publication. Due to their length, and the frequent lack of pre-planning or mid-run extension of the story, the plots of serial novels often are inconsistent in intensity or contradict themselves over time. Similarly, deus ex machinae are more common among serial novels. | The serial novel developed its own style conventions due to the format of its publication. Due to their length, and the frequent lack of pre-planning or mid-run extension of the story, the plots of serial novels often are inconsistent in intensity or contradict themselves over time. Similarly, deus ex machinae are more common among serial novels. | ||
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==== Republication as Bound Books ==== | |||
=== Cultural Conceptions === | |||
=== Archives === | |||
The first 68 issues of The Strand, spanning 1891 to 1924, can be viewed online in the HathiTrust digital library (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000642318). The physical copies of these issues are housed in libraries at the University of Michigan and Princeton. | The first 68 issues of The Strand, spanning 1891 to 1924, can be viewed online in the HathiTrust digital library (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000642318). The physical copies of these issues are housed in libraries at the University of Michigan and Princeton. | ||
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Dickens Digital Notes Project: https://dickensnotes.com | Dickens Digital Notes Project: https://dickensnotes.com | ||
== Contemporary == | |||
Serialized content has seen a revival with the emergence of digital technologies and the Internet. | |||
(mention modern authors who have experimented, such as Atwood and Stephen King) | |||
Aspiring authors online frequently publish their content serially. Fanfiction especially acts as a form of serial fiction, with authors publishing stories chapter by chapter online as they are written. Webtoons and Tapas similarly house manga and | |||
(gotta mention Worm here, can't get out of serialized fic without mentioning Worm or Homestuck) | |||
Rooster (https://readrooster.com) offers a serialized fiction subscription service for mobile devices. | |||
Revision as of 01:00, 5 December 2020
Serialized novels were popularized in [time]. They are most associated with Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The serial novel developed its own style conventions due to the format of its publication. Due to their length, and the frequent lack of pre-planning or mid-run extension of the story, the plots of serial novels often are inconsistent in intensity or contradict themselves over time. Similarly, deus ex machinae are more common among serial novels.
Historical
Publication
Republication as Bound Books
Cultural Conceptions
Archives
The first 68 issues of The Strand, spanning 1891 to 1924, can be viewed online in the HathiTrust digital library (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000642318). The physical copies of these issues are housed in libraries at the University of Michigan and Princeton.
Many Victorian serial fiction magazines are archived in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/victorianserialnovels
Dickens Digital Notes Project: https://dickensnotes.com
Contemporary
Serialized content has seen a revival with the emergence of digital technologies and the Internet.
(mention modern authors who have experimented, such as Atwood and Stephen King)
Aspiring authors online frequently publish their content serially. Fanfiction especially acts as a form of serial fiction, with authors publishing stories chapter by chapter online as they are written. Webtoons and Tapas similarly house manga and
(gotta mention Worm here, can't get out of serialized fic without mentioning Worm or Homestuck) Rooster (https://readrooster.com) offers a serialized fiction subscription service for mobile devices.