ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Miss Havisham, Subscription Library, Social Darwinism
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Informed his attitude toward social justice for the better and women for the worse. Serialization releasing a novel in parts in a magazine, writing it as it was being published. The triple decker victorian novel published in three volumes. Buying a novel this way was more expensive for the middle class. Not a series, it is one book in three parts. Extinct by 1890s but more people were literate. The circulating library - members could borrow unlimited books for a fee. Great expectations is exemplary of the victorian serial and three volume publishing models. It"s a product of a particular literary market, but the success of novels like great. These publishing models are linked to the form and structure of the novel. Published in 1860-1861 but its sent in the early nineteenth century. Dickens uses the past to critique similar elements of the present (ex: transport of convicts to australia and prison reform)
