Abstract
During the Victorian period, the category of “popular literature” itself underwent significant transformations; these dramatized broader changes in the production and consumption of the many other forms of popular culture, which simultaneously competed with literature for the attention, time, and funds of the British public. An explosion of new narrative genres as well as of diverse forms and formats of popular reading material that served the era's increasingly literate audiences also presented a problem for those who worried that the apparent addiction of a growing audience – including middle‐class women – to cheap and “sensational” fiction posed social and perhaps even physical dangers to the nation.
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