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2. and T. Lacy (2008) ‘Dreams of a Democratic Culture: Revising the Origins of the Great Books Idea, 1869–1921’, Journal of the Gilded Age, VII, 397–442.
3. E. A. Poe (1984) ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, in G. R. Thompson (ed.) Essays and Writings (New York: Library of America), p. 15.
4. L. Brake (2001) ‘Star Turn? Magazine, Part-Issue, Serialization’, Victorian Periodicals Review, XXXIV, 208.
5. R. L. Patten (2000) ‘Dickens as Serial Author: A Case of Multiple Identities’, in L. Brake, B. Bell and D. Finkelstein (eds) Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave — now Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 137, 140.