Title: Social stories
First published: 2003
Description: "Social Stories offers a narrative of the American magazine novel that emphasizes its direct engagement with social, political, and cultural issues of its day. Rejecting the association of novel reading with notions of the private, Okker convincingly argues that nineteenth-century magazine novels were indeed fiercely social.

Created collaboratively between readers, editors, and authors, and read together with a community of readers and other texts, the serial novel of the 1800s proved to be an ideal form for exploring the strategies Americans used and the obstacles they faced in forming and sustaining a collective sense of themselves. They are, in short, novels that tell stories about how - and whether - individuals can come together to form a society."--Jacket.
Subjects: History, History and criticism, Serialized fiction, Literature publishing, Serial publication of books, Literature and society, American periodicals, American fiction, American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century