Consuming Pleasures : Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera /

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""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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hayward, Jennifer, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Edición:Paperback edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Television series.
Serialized fiction.
Authors and readers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Écrivains et lecteurs > Histoire.
Roman-feuilleton > Histoire et critique.
Series televisees > Histoire.
Authors and readers > History.
Serialized fiction > History and criticism.
Television series > History.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations, tables
ISBN:9780813149639

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