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Consuming Pleasures

- Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera

About Consuming Pleasures

Hayward chooses four texts--Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend (1864-65), Milton Caniff's comic strip Terry and the Pirates (1934-46), and the soap operas All My Children (1970-) and One Life to Live (1968-)--to represent the evolution of serial fiction as a genre, and to analyze the peculiar draw serials have upon their audiences.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780813192826
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 232
  • Published:
  • November 4, 2009
  • Dimensions:
  • 153x230x19 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 378 g.
Delivery: 1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: October 18, 2024

Description of Consuming Pleasures

Hayward chooses four texts--Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend (1864-65), Milton Caniff's comic strip Terry and the Pirates (1934-46), and the soap operas All My Children (1970-) and One Life to Live (1968-)--to represent the evolution of serial fiction as a genre, and to analyze the peculiar draw serials have upon their audiences.

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