title: Serials to Graphic Novels: The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book
author: Catherine J. Golden
description: A well-researched and well-written overview of the development of the Victorian illustrated book, illuminating an under-studied area of scholarship and pointing to intriguing connections between Victorian illustrated books and contemporary graphic narratives. . . . Exceptionally insightful.<b><i>English Literature in Transition, 18801920</i></b><br /><br />Rich scholarship and extensive illustrated materials.<b><i>Victorian Periodicals Review</i></b><br /><br />Generously illustrated and highly informative. . . . The virtue of Goldens book is its wide scope, from eighteenth-century artists such as William Hogarth to recent developments in the graphic novel.<b><i>Dickens Quarterly </i></b><br /><br />A significant contribution to the scholarly literature on a phenomenon of exceptional interest in a transformative era in art and society.<b><i>Nineteenth-Century Contexts</i></b>
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  Copyright © 2003 Catherine Fisher  
  Map copyright © 2003 Adrian Barclay
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Hodder Children’s Books
  
  
  This E-book edition published in 2010
  
  
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