A feast that lasts a year or two
Subtitle: writing, reading, and editing serials in the "Quality Monthlies'"
By: Janina Rojek
Series: American studies -- volume 296; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 296.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783825367695
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Serialized fiction; History and criticism; American fiction; American periodicals; History; Literature publishing
Notes: Thesis (doctoral)--Philipps-Universität Marburg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284).
Table of contents: title: 1. Point of departure : situating the magazine serial; title: 2. Approaching seriality : the serial as medium; title: 3. Taking stock : society and the literary marketplace; title: 4. Negotiating seriality's demands; title: 5. Serial strategies at work : three examples from William Dean Howell's serial fiction; title: 6. Approaching closure : the rise of the short story as a media shift; title: 7. Conclusion.