Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (Record no. 66667)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198936053
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zafaa Book & Distributors
Distributor address ; 313/103A, H. No. 15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi
Bill Number ; ZBD0339
Bill Date : 09/12/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.8 DAM
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Damkjaer, Maria.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines
Statement of responsibility, etc / Maria Damkjaer.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , United Kingdon
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2025.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix, 214p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 6549
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc What makes fiction recognizable as fiction? Texts are shaped by their material print, but this book argues that they can also be made in response to it: that the needs of the magazine in the nineteenth century spurred writers to create hybrid, entangled texts. Using book history, genre theory, and literary close-reading, this book argues that narrative fiction in the nineteenth-century popular periodical was a malleable substance. By looking at typography, and the attempts to squeeze in too much text, or stretch out too little text, the book asks what the relationship was between the page that needed filling and the short story that tried to fill it. In the messy hybrids and outliers, we explore what fiction might have become.<br/><br/>The book works with magazines like the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (first series, 1852-59), the Family Herald (1842-1945), the Home Circle (1849-54), and authors like Elizabeth Gaskell, George Augustus Sala, and Samuel Beeton. It also includes a chapter on Charles Dickens's arguably least successful venture, Master Humphrey's Clock (1840-1), where Dickens was noticeably straining to sell and fill a weekly magazine. While the book is not attempting to destabilise the status of canonical fiction, it does ask how the page makes fiction happen; what kind of readers magazines imagined for themselves; and what readers thought they were reading when they picked up an issue. The book argues that magazines projected a print imaginary, a symbolic realm where the magazine fits perfectly into the lives of happy, active readers.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Nineteenth century
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Narrative fiction
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Maria Damkjaer.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 11/12/2025 Zafaa Books & Distributors 6549.00   823.8 DAM 31265 11/12/2025 11/12/2025 Books
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