Consuming pleasures : active audiences and serial fictions from Dickens to soap opera / Jennifer Hay...
Consuming pleasures : active audiences and serial fictions from Dickens to soap opera / Jennifer Hay...
Consuming pleasures : active audiences and serial fictions from Dickens to soap opera / Jennifer Hayward.
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Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1997.
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N791.456/6
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English
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Physical content
x, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Mutual Friends: The Development of the Mass Serial. Nineteenth-Century Readers of Serial Fiction. Case Study: Our Mutual Friend. Reviewers as Readers. "There was no such thing as I": The Narrative Preoccupations of Serial Fiction -- 2. Terry's Expert Readers: The Rise of the Continuity Comic. "St...
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Publisher
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1997.
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Kentucky
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Although the serial has enjoyed great marketplace success, traditional literary and social critics have denounced its ties to mass culture, claiming it preys upon passive fans. But Hayward argues that serial audiences have developed active strategies of consumption, such as collaborative reading and attempts to shape the production process. In this...
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Consuming pleasures : active audiences and serial fictions from Dickens to soap opera / Jennifer Hayward.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215) and index.
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c1997.
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N791.456/6
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74VvPQqyLNMl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvPQqyLNMl
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081312025X :
081312025X (acid-free paper)
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791.456
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991005676339702626
