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Consuming pleasures : active audiences and serial fictions from Dickens to soap opera /
""To be continued ... "" Whether these words fall at a season-ending episode of Star Trek or a TV commercial flirtation between coffee-loving neighbors, true fans find them impossible to resist. Ever since the 1830s, when Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers enticed a mass mark...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2009.
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| Edición: | Paperback edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | ""To be continued ... "" Whether these words fall at a season-ending episode of Star Trek or a TV commercial flirtation between coffee-loving neighbors, true fans find them impossible to resist. Ever since the 1830s, when Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers enticed a mass market for fiction, the serial has been a popular means of snaring avid audiences. Jennifer Hayward establishes serial fiction as a distinct genre -- one defined by the activities of its audience rather than by the formal qualities of the text. Ranging from installment novels, mysteries, and detective fiction of the 1800s to t |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813149639 0813149630 0813170028 9780813170022 0813184479 9780813184470 |