Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century

Erica Haugtvedt is Assistant Professor of English in the Humanities Department at South Dakota Mines in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. She specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, media and advertising history, and popular culture. She received her PhD in English from Ohio State University in 2015. She works on the serial Victorian novel and its contemporaneous adaptations-particularly focusing on serial character across media. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, Transformative Works and Cultures, and Victorian Popular Fictions Journal.

1. Introduction: From Novel Studies to Fan Studies.- 2. Pickwick Abroad (1837-1838): Transfictional Character as 
Permanent Object .- 3. Jack Sh Sheppard (1839-1840): Class and Complex Transfictional Character.- 4. Trilby (1894) in the Marketplace: fin de siècle Merchandising and Transfictional Character as Branded Object.- 5. Sherlock Holmes (1887-1930) and Believing in Character.- 6. Afterword.