The Plot Thickens. Lisa Surridge

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      The Plot Thickens

      Series in Victorian Studies

      Series editors: Joseph McLaughlin and Elizabeth Miller

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      Rebecca Rainof, The Victorian Novel of Adulthood: Plot and Purgatory in Fictions of Maturity

      Erika Wright, Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

      Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, editors, Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics

      Anna Maria Jones and Rebecca N. Mitchell, editors, Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts

      Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge, The Plot Thickens: Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

      The Plot Thickens

      Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

      MARY ELIZABETH LEIGHTON & LISA SURRIDGE

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, 1971- author. | Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963- author.

      Title: The plot thickens : illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier / Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018. | Series: Series in Victorian studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018043199| ISBN 9780821423349 (hardback) | ISBN 9780821446492 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: English fiction--19th century--History and criticism. | Serialized fiction--Great Britain--History and criticism. | Illustrated periodicals--Great Britain--History--19th century. | Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century. | BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. | LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.

      Classification: LCC PR878.S46 L45 2018 | DDC 823/.809--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018043199

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Abbreviations

       Introduction. Material Matters: The Illustrated Victorian Serial Novel

       ONE: Imagining the Self

       Illustration and the Technology of Selfhood in David Copperfield and Cousin Phillis

       TWO: Picturing the Past

       Illustration and the Making of History in The Tower of London, Vanity Fair, and A Tale of Two Cities

       THREE: Hallowing the Everyday

       Illustration and Realism in Wives and Daughters, Mistress and Maid, and The Small House at Allington

       FOUR: Arousing the Nerves

       Illustration and Sensation in The Notting Hill Mystery, Griffith Gaunt, and The Law and the Lady

       FIVE: From Peter Ibbetson to Pickwick and Back

       The Lives and Afterlives of Illustrated Victorian Serials

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

      Illustrations

       Fig. 0.1. Godfrey Sykes, wrapper for the Cornhill Magazine, August 1862

       Fig. 0.2. Hablôt K. Browne wrapper for David Copperfield (Dickens), part 1

       Fig. 0.3. Browne wrapper for A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), part 1

       Fig. 0.4. Helen Paterson, illustration and chapter initial for Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), part 10

       Fig. 0.5. Paterson, illustration and chapter initial for Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), part 11

       Fig. 0.6. William Makepeace Thackeray, illustration for his Vanity Fair, part 4

       Fig. 0.7. Paterson, chapter initial for Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), part 1

       Fig. 0.8. Sidney Paget, illustration for “A Case of Identity” (Doyle)

       Fig. 0.9. George Du Maurier, illustration for Wives and Daughters (Gaskell), part 11

       Fig. 0.10. Du Maurier, illustration for Wives and Daughters (Gaskell), part 16