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Reading novels in the nineteenth century involved a process of engagement that is largely impossible to replicate today. The works of writers such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray appeared in forms that no longer exist as a commercial publishing mode. They were released in serial numbers, published month by month in their own part-issue wrappers containing illustrations and trade advertisements. Or they appeared as monthly or weekly serializations in magazines of the period, sometimes illustrated, and always surrounded by the articles and news items of other writers. After the serial run, their numbers were then usually gathered together and published as volumes. These were generally in three-volume format, designed specifically for the circulating libraries to be borrowed a volume at a time.
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Pearson, R. (2010). Fiction and the Visual Arts. In: Maunder, A., Phegley, J. (eds) Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281264_9
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