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PICKWICK'S OTHER PAPERS: CONTINUALLY READING DICKENS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2016

Carrie Sickmann Han
Carrie Sickmann Han*
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Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis
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While carefully crafting a valentine to his would-be-lover Mary, Sam Weller finishes rather abruptly, and his father, looking over his shoulder, asks, “That's rayther a sudden pull up, ain't it, Sammy?” Sam's response emblematizes the driving force of the serial novel: “Not a bit on it. . . she'll vish there wos more, and that's the great art o' letter writin'” (344; no. XII, ch. XXXIII). Charles Dickens's great art of serial writing aimed to leave his readers repeatedly wishing there was more: more pages, more plot, more world, and above all, more time with their favorite characters. This desire encouraged readers to imagine beyond the novel – to pursue characters outside the pages of The Pickwick Papers itself. Their desires were rewarded with a wide range of continuations that included theatrical adaptations, plagiarisms, or unauthorized sequels – anything that, like the valentine, could reunite readers with their beloved Sam.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 19 - 41
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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