"Keystone" Structure in Dickens' Serial Novels

Abstract

Writing novels that originally appeared in weekly or monthly serial parts, but were afterwards published entire, as Dickens did, poses problems of unity and coherence in structure, characterization, and theme, of which he was well aware. In a letter rejecting the draft of a novel Mrs. Brookfield had submitted for serialization in All the Year Round, Dickens wrote:

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