Dec 19, 2018
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The Empathetic Author in the Internet Age: The Victorian Serialized Novel and the Internet Serial as Social Experience

“Like the reader’s letters to Dickens pleading for Nell’s life, direct address to the reader was a way for the author to plead for the reader’s continued interest.”

“For a comic with a seven to eight year run, questions arise: what is a “spoiler” versus what is information that will affect a reader’s decision to continue reading the comic?”

“While in the Victorian context serialization was the mainstream form of publishing, being the form of choice of Dickens, Trollope, Gaskell, Eliot, and countless more, in today’s context, serialization is reserved for the unambitious or the countercultural.”

by Alyssa Krasnansky

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