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- The novel of manners;
- The humanitarian novel;
- The novel of formation;
- Literary nonsense.

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Essays, verse and even novel made their first apparence in instalments in the pages of periodicals.

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The serialization of literature began as early as the 17th century but it reached its zenith in Britain in the 19th century. Throughout the Victorian period, novels in serial parts were published in abundance in newspapers and magazines, by far the most popular form, or in discreet parts issued in instalments, usually twenty monthly issues.

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The Victorian reading public firmly established the novel as the dominant literary form of the era.

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Novels generally dealt with the adventures either of a social outcast or a more virtuous hero.

AIM AND THE SOCIAL CHANGE
By the 1840s novelists wanted to reflect social change such as: the Industrial Revolution, the struggle fot democracy and the growth of towns and cities.

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Victorian writers often belonged to the middle class.

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Developments in narrative technique:
• full description and exposition
• authorial essays
• multiplotting featuring several central characters

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The Victorians showed a marked interest in prose and became the most popular form of literature and the main source of entertainment.