Laments for Little Nell: Serial Grieving and White Sentiment.

The article focuses on how the serialized publication of "The Old Curiosity Shop" by Charles Dickens shaped readers' emotional engagement with the death of the character Little Nell, encouraging a collective culture of mourning through the structure of serial storytelling. Topics include the role of serial openings in building suspense and communal reader response, the connection between Victorian mourning culture and serialized fiction, and the way sentimental grief for innocent children.