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The Plot Thickens
Series in Victorian Studies
Series editors: Joseph McLaughlin and Elizabeth Miller
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Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge, The Plot Thickens: Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier
The Plot Thickens
Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier
MARY ELIZABETH LEIGHTON & LISA SURRIDGE
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, 1971- author. | Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963- author.
Title: The plot thickens : illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier / Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018. | Series: Series in Victorian studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018043199| ISBN 9780821423349 (hardback) | ISBN 9780821446492 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: English fiction--19th century--History and criticism. | Serialized fiction--Great Britain--History and criticism. | Illustrated periodicals--Great Britain--History--19th century. | Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century. | BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. | LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
Classification: LCC PR878.S46 L45 2018 | DDC 823/.809--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018043199
Contents
Introduction. Material Matters: The Illustrated Victorian Serial Novel
Illustration and the Technology of Selfhood in David Copperfield and Cousin Phillis
Illustration and the Making of History in The Tower of London, Vanity Fair, and A Tale of Two Cities
Illustration and Realism in Wives and Daughters, Mistress and Maid, and The Small House at Allington
Illustration and Sensation in The Notting Hill Mystery, Griffith Gaunt, and The Law and the Lady
FIVE: From Peter Ibbetson to Pickwick and Back
The Lives and Afterlives of Illustrated Victorian Serials
Illustrations
Fig. 0.1. Godfrey Sykes, wrapper for the Cornhill Magazine, August 1862
Fig. 0.2. Hablôt K. Browne wrapper for David Copperfield (Dickens), part 1
Fig. 0.3. Browne wrapper for A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), part 1
