LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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It allowed authors to build an audience through anticipation, and it also enabled authors to respond to the response of readers, occasionally trying new strategies if the reception was not good enough.
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It was problematic to produce the entire book because authors often ran out of paper, which slowed the production process.
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It was one way of becoming wealthy through writing.
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Authors often were too preoccupied by the busy Victorian lifestyle to write sustained prose and so this allowed them to write whole novels on the short-story clock.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Serialization meant that a novel was published in weekly or monthly instalments. Instead of buying a completed book, readers would purchase chapters or parts as they were released.
Detailed explanation-2: -These magazines provided monthly installments of news articles, satiric essays, poetry and fiction. These serial publications enabled many authors to easily share their work with the public and helped launch the careers of prominent Victorian writers such as Dickens, Eliot, Tennyson, and the Brownings (Norton).
Detailed explanation-3: -As the middle class expanded and more people became literate, the popularity of the novel exploded. These works also became more accessible as a result of the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of newspapers and the periodical press.
Detailed explanation-4: -Children’s books were popularized during the Victorian era as part of the Sunday School Movement, which involved, among other activities, distributing pamphlets carrying moralistic stories written in simple English for the purpose of imparting knowledge of the Bible to children from poor families.