In both France and England seriality was a popular publication scheme, though formats differed in the two countries. Nearing the end of their serialization, romans-feuilletons were released in book form. Another form of serial publication, which predates the serial-in-periodical form, consists in a book being sliced up and sold in instalments, or livraisons. Publication began 2 November and concluded in the following April.
One appeared in the pages of the London Journal , a penny weekly magazine that ran until It was authored by George William MacArthur Reynolds, little known today, but an important figure of British popular literature and Chartism. A different translation was published by George Peirce in stand-alone penny numbers which, once assembled, produced a book.
France was then in the aftermath of a revolution. Reynolds joined both French literary circles and expatriate social circles in Paris. Most importantly, he discovered in the French press the power of a literary-political discourse and cross-class culture. When The Paris Advertiser collapsed, he declared bankruptcy, and returned to London in with his wife Susannah Frances, also a writer, whom he met and married in France.
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Upon his return to Britain, Reynolds found a job as editor of the Monthly Magazine , in which he serialized three of his own novels. In , Reynolds became foreign editor for the working-class radical Weekly Dispatch. The next year, he launched a temperance periodical, The Teetotaller , in which he continued to write serial fiction. It ran little more than a year.
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In October Reynolds began serialising The Mysteries of London , which would prove to be his most renowned work. The first series was followed by a second and, though a quarrel with the publisher led to a third and a fourth being brought out by two other authors, Reynolds continued his encyclopaedic series in The Mysteries of the Court of London until While engaged with this apparently never-ending narrative, he found time to write multiple other serials in addition to editing a magazine and a newspaper.
Indeed, Reynolds had been recruited in March as editor of the new London Journal. Hence, Reynolds did not confine himself to politically-inclined social realism, but also explored the possibilities of supernatural Gothic fiction. In , he was recruited as keynote speaker for Chartist rallies. He died in London in Throughout the serial, the illustrations are closely related to the narrative.
Both translations copied most of them from the French book. Reynolds takes the care to adds paragraphs to introduce four engravings absent in the source text. Other deviations from the French text can be explained by the serial-in-periodical format in which instalments tend to consist of complete chapters. Occasionally chapters were divided in two because they overran the prescribed length of the instalment, or because the instalment would otherwise have contained only a single chapter.
The first instalment is especially enticing because it quickly introduces a variety of subplots. Firstly, Dolorez is presented to the reader through the lustful gaze of a congregation of licentious clergymen in the first chapter. Secondly, Francesca, the Abbess of the Carmelites, also mentioned at the orgy, is encountered in the prisons of the Inquisition in the second chapter. Both phrases appear in the French text, but later on in the narrative. Word choice, additions, and chronological restructuring transform the leading antagonist into an arch-villain.
Thus Reynolds meticulously restructured the narrative not only to have a torture scene illustrated on the cover of the first instalment, but to prompt new interpretations of the text. Other notable differences from the original appear in the notes provided by the editor. The Case of G.
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[Les Mystères de Londres.] The Mysteries of London. Translated from the French.
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