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Farm, Field and Fireside: Serialized Fiction

A subject guide on the history of serialized fiction published in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals.

Works Cited in this Guide

Baym, Nina. American women writers and the work of history, 1790-1860. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

---. Novels, readers, and reviewers: responses to fiction in antebellum America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Casey, Janet Galligani. 'This is YOUR Magazine': Domesticity, Agrarianism, and The Farmer's Wife. American Periodicals 14(2004): 179-211.

Endres, Kathleen L. and Therese L. Lueck. Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines. Wesport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995

Ford, James L.C. Magazines for Millions: The Story of Specialized Magazines. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969.

Fry, John J. The Farm Press, Reform, and Rural Change, 1895-1920. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Garvey, Ellen Gruber. Adman in the parlor: magazines and the gendering of consumer culture, 1880s to 1910s.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Glazener, Nancy. Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.

Jellison, Katherine. Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963. Chapel Hill: Universtiy of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Okker, Patricia. Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Price, Kenneth M. and Susan B. Smith (eds.). Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1995.

Sedgwick, Ellery. Atlantic Monthly, 1857-1909: Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.

Shillingsburg, Peter L. Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Shulman, Stuart W. "The Progressive Era Farm Press: A Primer on a Neglected Source of Journalism History." Journalism History. 25.1 (1999): 27-35.

Suzuki, Noriko. The re-invention of the American West: women's periodicals and gendered geography in the late nineteenth-century United States. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.