I feel a little shamefaced posting about Masterpiece theatre, but I can’t be the only Victorianist out there watching Downton Abbey. I think overall the first season was a little stronger than the second, but have enjoyed every episode nonetheless. I wondered as I was watching the first season if the disability themes were meant [...]
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Downton Abbey
Posted in Karen Bourrier, tagged disability studies, serialization on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Where is the Text in Textual Materialism?
Posted in Jennifer Esmail, tagged book history, Dickens, digital humanities, material culture, reading, serialization, things on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As a scholar working in the field of Deaf Studies who thinks daily about the fraught triangulation of written language, signed language and spoken language, I was intrigued by Bill Brown’s recent call to “extend textual materialism beyond the manuscript and the book and to expand the ways of locating physical detail in a sign [...]
Serialized Reading, in Two Parts. Part II.
Posted in Guest Bloggers, tagged illustration, periodicals, reading, serialization, Wilkie Collins on August 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A Guest Post by Emily Simmons One of the fun things about posting with a title like this one is that I knew I was coming back to it sooner or later. Well, The Law and the Lady is finished, and we’ve had another meeting to discuss its attractions (many) and repulsions (some, yes). Of [...]
Drawing Serially
Posted in Tara MacDonald, tagged illustration, periodicals, reading, serialization on July 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In her last post, Jennifer raised a number of possible connections between contemporary blogging and nineteenth-century serial writing. After reading a recent article by Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge in Victorian Studies, “The Plot Thickens: Toward a Narratological Analysis of Illustrated Serial Fiction in the 1860s,” I think one of the ways that Victorian [...]
Writing Serially
Posted in Jennifer Esmail, tagged blogs, Dickens, periodicals, serialization on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the first chapter of his book Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves, Malcolm Andrews attends to the particular relationship that Charles Dickens had with his readers – both in his imagination and in theirs. Andrews discusses the influence of serialization on the relationship between writer and reader, drawing heavily on Hughes and Lund’s The [...]
Serialized Reading, in Two Parts. Part I.
Posted in Guest Bloggers, tagged reading, serialization, Wilkie Collins on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A guest post from Emily Simmons Currently I am both reading and not-reading Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady. Our Nineteenth-century reading group has undertaken an approximation of the serialized reading experience this summer with a sensation novel. The novel was originally serialized in weekly installments in The Graphic between September 1874 and March [...]
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