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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2019
      December 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108761017
      9781108486545
      9781108707930
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108761017
      Dimensions:
      (235 x 158 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 184 Pages
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      Weight & Pages:
      0.323kg, 198 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (183)
      Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (183)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels explores the prolific careers of four exemplary novelists - E. D. E. N. Southworth, Ann Stephens, Mary Jane Holmes, and Laura Jean Libbey. These commercially successful writers helped to shape the popular tradition of serial magazine fiction by drawing on readers' tastes along with their cultural concerns. Their astonishing productivity led magazine editors and publishers to return to them repeatedly for more serials to be turned into even more novels, even as they reprinted these fictions under new titles. Dale M. Bauer analyzes how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's anxieties and pain. Arguing that these novels provided temporary resolutions to the social, economic, and psychological tensions that readers faced, Bauer explains how this otherwise forgotten archive of fiction now offers an extraordinarily expanded range of women's literary effort from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

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