Seriality, Miscellaneity, and Compression in Nineteenth-Century Print
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the relationship between seriality, miscellaneity, and compression in nineteenth-century print. Thinking about seriality and miscellaneity raises questions about form and format (aesthetics) alongside mechanism (technology). I argue that, taken together, seriality and miscellaneity are the twin engines that drive a compressive dynamic of print in the period, in which we see the pressures of expansion and spread. They are also, however, engines of reduction and contraction. I discuss sev-eral print media examples—including newspaper press directories, G. W. M. Reynolds’s serial The Mysteries of London (1844-56), and literary miscellanies—to complicate our understanding of both seriality and miscellaneity and to posit a more enmeshed understanding of both.
Source: Victorian Studies
Author: Turner
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3040513938