Serial Novels

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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.

Republication as Bound Books

Magazine 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