ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on that critical "part of the context what was happening to the distribution of printed matter" during the period Eliot terms the "second phase" of British book and periodical expansion in the nineteenth century (1875–1903). It explores the under-documented global expansion of colonial and foreign markets for British periodicals, and British publishers' attempts to supply those markets, from roughly 1880 to 1914. The chapter surveys some of the many periodicals and periodical forms in which readers first encountered adventure fiction during the nineteenth century, and argues that a close, symbiotic relationship developed between these periodical forms and the evolving genre of late-Victorian adventure fiction. It argues that important serializations of the works across a variety of magazines evince a particularly urgent, profoundly generative tension between the texts of modern adventure fiction and the global and material context of their periodical publication, distribution, and circulation throughout the Empire and around the world.
