Palgrave Fan Studies

Haugtvedt, Erica

This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how the period’s receptive practices anticipate the receptive practices of fandom and transmedia storytelling franchises in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The central claim  is that the serialized, periodical, and dramatic media environment of the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century in Great Britain trained audiences to perceive the continuous identity of characters and worlds across disparate texts, illustrations, plays, and songs by creators other than the earliest originating author. The book contributes to fan studies, transmedia studies, and nineteenth-century periodical studies while also interrogating the nature of fictional character.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-11-18

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031134654

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13463-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 217