{"id":1074,"date":"2018-12-19T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2018-12-19T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:21:01","slug":"the-empathetic-author-in-the-internet-age-the-victorian-serialized-novel-and-the-internet-serial-as-social-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/current-issue\/the-empathetic-author-in-the-internet-age-the-victorian-serialized-novel-and-the-internet-serial-as-social-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empathetic Author in the Internet Age: The Victorian Serialized Novel and the Internet Serial as Social Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLike the reader\u2019s letters to Dickens pleading for Nell\u2019s life, direct address to the reader was a way for the author to plead for the reader\u2019s continued interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a comic with a seven to eight year run, questions arise: what is a \u201cspoiler\u201d versus what is information that will affect a reader\u2019s decision to continue reading the comic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile 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\u2019s context, serialization is reserved for the unambitious or the countercultural.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>by Alyssa Krasnansky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/the-empathetic-author-in-the-internet-age-the-victorian-serialized-novel-and-the-internet-serial-as-social-experience\/\">The Empathetic Author in the Internet Age: The Victorian Serialized Novel and the Internet<br \/>\nSerial as Social Experience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLike the reader\u2019s letters to Dickens pleading for Nell\u2019s life, direct address to the reader was a way for the author to plead for the reader\u2019s continued interest.\u201d \u201cFor a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}