The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel

by Troy J Bassett

Book Overview

Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott's popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030319288
• ISBN13: 9783030319281
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"