The Nineteenth-Century Serial As a Collective Enterprise: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Eugène Sue's Les Mystères De Paris.

Two works serve as particularly striking mid-nineteenth century examples of the complex relationships between the writer, readers, editor, and, finally, hook publisher of serialized novels: Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris (1942-43) and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52). The periodicals in which the serializations appear offer significantly different environments for the production and reception of the fiction.