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The first 68 issues of The Strand, spanning 1891 to 1924, can be viewed online in the | The first 68 issues of The Strand, spanning 1891 to 1924, can be viewed as page scans or text files online in the [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000642318 HathiTrust digital library]. The physical copies of these issues are housed in libraries of multiple American universities.[https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=strandmag] | ||
Additionally, many Victorian serial fiction magazines are archived in the Internet Archive.[https://archive.org/details/victorianserialnovels] | |||
[https://dickensnotes.com Dickens Digital Notes Project] [https://twitter.com/DickensNotes] | [https://dickensnotes.com Dickens Digital Notes Project] [https://twitter.com/DickensNotes] | ||
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[https://readrooster.com Rooster] offers a serialized fiction subscription service for mobile devices. | [https://readrooster.com Rooster] offers a serialized fiction subscription service for mobile devices. | ||
== Some Sources == | |||
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=strandmag | |||
Revision as of 22:41, 6 December 2020
Serialized novels were popularized in [time].
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
Many classical authors are associated with the serial form, most famously Charles Dickens. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's initial Sherlock Holmes stories and Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Archives
The first 68 issues of The Strand, spanning 1891 to 1924, can be viewed as page scans or text files online in the HathiTrust digital library. The physical copies of these issues are housed in libraries of multiple American universities.[1]
Additionally, many Victorian serial fiction magazines are archived in the Internet Archive.[2]
Dickens Digital Notes Project [3]
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
Rooster offers a serialized fiction subscription service for mobile devices.
Some Sources
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=strandmag