Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing

Thomas Vranken is a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. His work on nineteenth-century periodicals, literature, and culture has appeared in journals such as PMLA, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Victorian Periodicals Review. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne.

"In Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialisation, Thomas Vranken broadens current periodicals scholarship…While Vranken values past scholarship on serialization, he illustrates important shifts in later nineteenth-century magazines’ publication methods and contends that we must expand our focus to better understand those decisions in their historical contexts… Vranken’s analysis of magazines’ changing publication practices as the nineteenth century became the twentieth will enable periodicals scholars to better understand the larger picture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century magazine publication decisions." Meaghan Scott (University of St. Thomas), Victorian Periodicals Review"Vranken’s discussions of his three authors are each so valuable in their own right that his book should not be missed by scholars interested in their major works, their transatlantic connections in literature of the period, and their relationship to the contemporaneous periodical press." Koenraad Claes (Anglia Ruskin University), English Studies"Vranken takes up the complexities of serialization with analytical rigor and gusto… All told, Vranken’s book is a bold and refreshing read that promises to spur additional insights" Mark Noonan (New York City College of Technology), author of Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893, American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism

• Introduction: Serialisation and its Discontents . Chapter One: Articles for Sale: Excerpting Huckleberry Finn in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Chapter Two: Assuming a Skeptical Attitude: Dorian Gray as Pseudo-Book in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine Chapter Three: Between Intimacy and Distance: The Return of Sherlock Holmes as the Ideal Compromise in The Strand and Collier’s Postscript: The Final Instalment Appendix A: Discussions of Serialisation in Fin-de-Siècle Magazines Appendix B: Walter Dill Scott’s ‘The Psychological Value of Fusion’ Appendix C: Correspondence Surrounding the Magazine Publication of Huckleberry Finn, Dorian Gray, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes