Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing

As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in particular) on the ways in which the periodical press first published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Picture of Dorian Gray , and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. What led magazines to publish excerpts