![]() ![]() Much like a contemporary magazine, these serialized parts were specifically designed for entertainment and reader consumption.Popular companies and businesses were able to create advertisements that “ could easily be incorporated into the little booklets in which a typical Dickens novel was issued” (Brattin). With supplemental advertisements in the areas of gardening, parenting, fashion, printing press items, and more, these serialized parts were highly anticipated by the Victorian reader. According to the article “Dickens and Serial Publication”, Joel Brattin claims that,”Dickens had to consider structure carefully, thinking simultaneously of the needs of his serial readers and of those who would eventually read the books in volume form.” He had to leave his readers wanting more by ending the serial part with cliff hangers and suspenseful moments that cannot simply be left untold. These much anticipated pieces cost merely one shilling, and were therefore affordable to the majority of citizens during Victorian period in England. The serialization of this novel provided specific chapters to his hungry readers once a month. ![]() Charles Dickens serialized the novel, Bleak House in 1852. ![]()
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