title: The Norton Introduction to Literature (Tenth Edition)
author: Alison Booth
description: Alison Booth is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on Victorian literature and feminist theory and criticism, and her teaching at Virginia has ranged from "The Nineteenth-Century British novel" to "Utopias and Science Fiction." She is the author of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf and editor of Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure.
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  **The Revolution Was Televised**
  
   **The Cops, Crooks,**
  
   **Slingers and Slayers**
  
   **Who Changed TV**
  
   **Drama Forever**
  
    
  
  **By Alan Sepinwall**
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2012 by Alan Sepinwall. All rights reserved.
  
    
  
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  _This book is dedicated to two people I dearly wish were still here to read
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   _Dr. Jerry Sepinwall, who always encouraged my love of reading and writing._
  
   _David Mills, who gave me my first peek behind the curtain._
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
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