Abstract
My subject is serialisation; that is, the division of narrative into separately issued instalments, usually for commercial convenience but occasionally for art. Specifically, I am concerned with that node of serialisation pioneered by Dickens in April 1836 with his first novel, and which he was still triumphantly practising in September 1870, the month of his death. A majority (nine) of his novels came iut this way. The features of Dickensian serialisation can be given Bitzer-style as: ‘The new novel in twenty monthly, self-contained, illustrated parts, each 32 pages long, selling at one shilling, wrapped in an uniformly illustrated paper cover and accompanied by an advertiser.’
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