Advertising and Fiction in The Pickwick Papers

May 2010 in “ Victorian literature and culture ”

Andy Williams

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Studysummary This article discusses the substantial presence of advertising material in the original serial numbers of "The Pickwick Papers," accounting for almost one third of the content, but presents no new results.

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