It is a valuable and original investigation of noncanonical serials in the early nineteenth century. It is also a significant contribution to the conversation about form, time, and politics that extends beyond seriality studies. * Robyn Warhol's, MLQ: A Journal of Literary History * This is both an exciting and a weighty book. It joins extensive archival knowledge with sharp theoretical insight to throw a new light on the emergence of the modern subject ... I am eager for the next installment. * Caroline Levine, Modern Philology * Pettitt expertly weaves together various strands to show how the growing infiltration of seriality into every aspect of culture forms 'the dynamic processes involved in calibrating a new form of social time'. [ ...] Serial Forms is a rich, textured study, and there are many byways of the argument not touched upon here that readers will find useful. * David E. Latané, Victorian Periodicals Review * In Pettitt's hands, serialization becomes not simply a subject for literary discussion, but is interpreted as a significant cultural movement which informed, and was informed by, the politics and people of the time. The result is an insightful and inspiring collection of chapters that broadens our knowledge of the subject andappropriately in the spirit of serializationwhets our appetite for the next two books to follow. * Pete Orford, Dickens Quarterly * With its thrilling combination of small details and big insights, this book should attract a readership as wide and grateful as that achieved by Linda Hughes and Michael Lund's The Victorian Serial... I, for one, am eager for the next installment. * Matthew Poland, review19 * The greatest strength of the book is its meticulous research of periodicals,...Serial Forms offers a refreshingly material engagement with affect studies. * William Lee Hughes, Victorian Studies Vol 64.4 *
