Social stories
the magazine novel in nineteenth-century America
by Patricia Okker
"Social Stories offers a narrative of the American magazine novel that emphasizes its direct engagement with social, political, and cultural issues of its day. Rejecting the association of novel reading with notions of the private, Okker convincingly argues that nineteenth-century magazine novels were indeed fiercely social.
Created collaboratively between readers, editors, and authors, and read together with a community of readers and other texts, the serial novel of the 1800s proved to be an ideal form for exploring the strategies Americans used and the obstacles they faced in forming and sustaining a collective sense of themselves. They are, in short, novels that tell stories about how - and whether - individuals can come together to form a society."--Jacket.
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2004, University of Virginia Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
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