Serial Forms - The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848

Studies 'seriality' in nineteenth-century literary and popular print culture, focusing on literacy and the material history of reading in the period from 1815 to 1848.

List of contents

• Introduction: Serial Forms


• 1: Yesterday's News


• 2: Scott Unbound


• 3: Live Byron


• 4: Vesuvius on the Strand


• 5: Scalar: Pugin, Carlyle, Dickens


• 6: History in Miniature


• 7: Biopolitics of Seriality


• Conclusion: 1848 and Serial Revolutions

About the author

Clare Pettitt has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and culture. She has taught at the universities of Oxford, Leeds, Cambridge, and King's College London. Pettitt is currently Grace 2 Chair at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.

Summary

Studies 'seriality' in nineteenth-century literary and popular print culture, focusing on literacy and the material history of reading in the period from 1815 to 1848.

Product details

• Authors: Clare Pettitt, Clare (Grace 2 Chair Pettitt, Pettitt Clare
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2020
• EAN: 9780198830429
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883042-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers