Advertising and fiction in the Pickwick Papers

Williams, Andy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9603-4309 2010. Advertising and fiction in the Pickwick Papers. Victorian Literature and Culture 38 (02) , pp. 319-335. 10.1017/S106015031000001X

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It is well known that many of Dickens's novels were published in monthly serial parts. Not so commonly known is that each of these monthly numbers consisted not only of Dickens's words and his illustrator's pictures but also a substantial advertising supplement. In the original serial numbers of The Pickwick Papers, the presence of advertising cannot escape notice. Before reaching the illustrations that precede the novel in each serial part, the Victorian reader would have encountered “The Pickwick Advertiser,” a paratextual supplement that consisted of page upon page of advertisements for all manner of commodities. At the end of the last chapter of the serial number were usually around ten further pages of advertising stitched in before the back cover (which was also filled with publicity material). Almost one third of the material text of Pickwick in parts consisted of advertising material (Hatton and Cleaver xiii).

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
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Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	1060-1503
Funders:	AHRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 01:25
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/10519

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