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Victorian sensation novels, serialised on LJ.
Hello, dracula1897 folks! Thanks once again for joining in with this one. Hopefully, some of you will also be interested in my next project.
serialsensation is a follow-up to dracula1897: Victorian sensation novels, posted in twice-weekly instalments. We're starting with Ellen Wood's 1861 novel East Lynne, a tale of drama, disguises, scandal, shame, implausible plot twists and nail- ( Read more... ) -
New community for serialised novels
For those of you who read Italian, may I wave you over to apuntate, a community which is just starting up. This will do the same as episodical, namely to post novels by instalments. It is about to start with The Count of Monte Cristo. Enjoy! -
If you enjoyed Dracula, come and read Mansfield Park
episodical has just been launched. This community will be used to for posting novels, a chapter at a time, to be read and discussed. Our first novel will be Jane Austen's controversial Mansfield Park, a tale of character and sensibility, marriage and class, wit and social critique. The reading will start on Monday 18 June and two or three chapters will be ( Read more... ) -
Proposal for new reading group
As eye_of_a_cat has mentioned, neither of us has the time to take on the behemoth that is running Dracula again this year, and my plans for running Clarissa, an even huger job, got put on hold. It might happen next year (it's a January start), but meanwhile there are six months to go ( Read more... ) -
With apologies...
...we won't be able to re-run the community this year, as a few of you (and me, to be honest) were hoping for, and as most of you will have already guessed by now. Other time commitments have just become overwhelming, and with my PhD thesis due to be submitted at one of the novel's busiest times, I can't even spare the time to monitor the community ( Read more... ) -
A plea for research
retrospection_ is carrying out some research on the hypertext readings of texts such as we conducted with Dracula here, so if you took part in any way, even if you just read along silently, she'd love to hear from you. -
Dracula's Guest
As a present for anyone missing their vampire literature, here's the short story 'Dracula's Guest' as published by Florence Stoker several years after her husband's death. It's often described as a missing/extended first chapter to Dracula, although it doesn't really fit into the structure of the novel that way. See what you think, and enjoy!
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End-of-novel discussion
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A message from your moderators
When we created this community, just over six months ago, we were expecting a few dozen people to join. At its peak, membership here reached 1800-plus. As you can imagine, then, we're pretty pleased with how things turned out! We'd like to thank all of you for making this such a lively and interesting six months; we've had a great time, and we're ( Read more... )