Patricia Okker is a professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia and past president of the Research Society for American Periodicals. She is the author of Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of American Women Editors (1995) and Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America (2003).

"All of the essays shine light on long-neglected authors, texts, and audiences, and amply demonstrate that these serialized fictions not only reflected the concerns of their readerships but also helped shape their attitudes. Summing Up: Highly recommended." --C. Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska at Omaha, CHOICE

• Contents Introduction: Patricia Okker, "The Transnational Serial" 1: Caught Between Continents: The Local and the Transatlantic in the French-Language Serial Fiction of New Orleans’ Le Courrier de la Louisiane, 1843-1845, Clint Bruce 2: Tracking the First Latino Novel: Un matrimonio como hay muchos (1849) and Transnational Serial Fiction, Kirsten Silva Gruesz 3: Mobility and Resistance in Antebellum African American Serialized Fiction, Jean Lee Cole 4: Prose Pictures of Kleindeutschland: German-Language Local Color Serials of the Late Nineteenth Century, Peter Conolly-Smith 5: Escapism and Entertainment: Serialized Fiction in Swedish-American Newspapers, Ulf Jonas Bjork 6: ‘The Stimulus of Books and Tales’: Pauline Hopkins’s Serial Novels for the Colored American Magazine, Rachel Ihara 7: Bernardino Ciambelli's Misteri di Harlem: An Example of Serialized Fiction in the Italian American Press, Bénédicte Deschamps 8: Dream or Reality?: Polish American Serial Fiction during the Cultural Transition, 1900-1939, Danuta Romaniuk 9: An Editor Writes for His Subscribers: A Norwegian American Serialized Trilogy, 1919-1922, Orm Øverland 10: The Pregnant Bride from Suffolk Street: Intraethnic Class Conflict in a Yiddish Serial Novel (1931), Ellen Kellman 11: Piecing Together a ‘Binocular Vision’: Serial Fiction and Chinese American Identity in the Early Cold War, Wen Jin Notes Index