id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15681 Ryan, Michael Patricia Okker. Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-century America. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Pr., 2003. 202p. alk. paper, $37.50 (ISBN 0813922402). LC 2003-6547. 2004-07-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1793 80 54 The enormous success of Dickens’s serial fiction on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1840s created a golden age of magazine fiction that lasted until the very end of the century, when economics and immigration changed the editorial practices at major magazines. At the very least, many of these essays should be welcomed into the canon of preservation literature. cache/crl-15681.pdf txt/crl-15681.txt