Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United
States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first
comprehensive study of the publication of instalment fiction in
Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have
exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in
the last decades of the nineteenth century. A detailed description of
the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of
its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form.