Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America

by Patricia Okker

Largely ignored in American literary history, the magazine novel was extremely popular throughout the nineteenth century, with editors describing the form as a virtual "necessity" for magazines. Unlike many previous studies of periodicals that focus often exclusively on elite literary magazines, Social Stories treats a variety of magazines and authors, ranging from Ann Stephens's novels in fashionable magazines for women to William Dean Howells's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922402
• ISBN13: 9780813922409
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"