Contributors: John O. Jordan, Robert L. Patten, Simon Eliot, Peter J. Manning, Stephen Gill, J. Hillis Miller, Linda K. Hughes, Michael Lund, Kelly J. Mays, Jonathan Rose, Gerard Curtis, Catherine A. Judd, Maura Ives, Laurel Brake, Elizabeth Morrison.

List of illustrations. -- List of tables. -- List of contributors. -- Acknoweledgments. -- 1. Introduction: publishing history as hypertext, John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten. -- 2. Some trends in British book production 1800–1919, Simon Eliot. -- 3. Wordsworth in The Keepsake, 1829, Peter J. Manning. -- 4. Copyright and the publishing of Wordsworth 1850–1900, Stephen Gill. -- 5. Sam Weller's Valentine, J. Hillis Miller. -- 6. Serialised retrospection in The Pickwick Papers, Robert L. Patten. -- 7. Textual/sexual pleasure and serial publication, Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund. -- 8. The disease of reading and Victorian periodicals, Kelly J. Mays. -- 9. How historians study reader response; or, what did Jo think of Bleak House?, Jonathan Rose. -- 10. Dickens in the visual market, Gerard Curtis. -- 11. Male pseudonyms and female authority in Victorian England, Catherine A. Judd. -- 12. A bibliographical approach to Victorian publishing, Maura Ives. -- 13. The 'wicked Westminster', the Fortnightly, and Walter Pater's Renaissance, Laurel Brake. -- 14. Serial fiction in Australian colonial newspapers, Elizabeth Morrison. -- Index.