03429nam 2200661 450 991081825770332120200520144314.00-8131-8447-90-8131-4963-00-8131-7002-8(CKB)111004368603336(EBL)1914951(SSID)ssj0000129513(PQKBManifestationID)12000037(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129513(PQKBWorkID)10077842(PQKB)10885231(OCoLC)47010225(MdBmJHUP)muse43740(Au-PeEL)EBL1914951(CaPaEBR)ebr11011627(CaONFJC)MIL690697(OCoLC)900344320(MiAaPQ)EBC1914951(EXLCZ)9911100436860333620150205h20091997 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrConsuming pleasures active audiences and serial fictions from Dickens to soap opera /Jennifer HaywardPaperback edition.Lexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2009.©19971 online resource (x, 228p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59415-5 0-8131-2025-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mutual Friends: The Development of the Mass Serial; Nineteenth-Century Readers of Serial Fiction; Case Study: Our Mutual Friend; Reviewers as Readers; ""There was no such thing as I"": The Narrative Preoccupations of Serial Fiction; 2 Terry's Expert Readers: The Rise of the Continuity Comic; ""Streamline your mind"": Comic Strip Production in the Age of Ford and Taylor; Case Study: Terry and the Pirates; Active Readers and Comic Agendas; Comic Ideologies: Pinup Girls and ""Screwy Chinese""; The Decline of the Serial Strip3 The Future of the Serial Form Audiences and Soap Opera Production; Knowledge and Power: Soap Narrative Strategies; Audiences and Power; Case Study: Redeeming the Rapist; Humor, Irony, and Self-Reflexivity; Tune In Tomorrow; Notes; Bibliography; Index;""To be continued... "" Whether these words fall at a season-ending episode of Star Trek or a TV commercial flirtation between coffee-loving neighbors, true fans find them impossible to resist. Ever since the 1830's, when Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers enticed a mass market for fiction, the serial has been a popular means of snaring avid audiences. Jennifer Hayward establishes serial fiction as a distinct genre -- one defined by the activities of its audience rather than by the formal qualities of the text. Ranging from installment novels, mysteries, and detective fiction of the 1800'sTelevision seriesHistorySerialized fictionHistory and criticismAuthors and readersHistoryTelevision seriesHistory.Serialized fictionHistory and criticism.Authors and readersHistory.791.45/6Hayward Jennifer1961-1631156MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818257703321Consuming pleasures3969833UNINA