On serialization in Victorian England, see Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund, The Victorian Serial (U. Press of Virginia 1991) and Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work (U. Press of Virginia, 1999)..
For serialization in nineteenth-century America, see Michael Lund, America's Continuing Story: An Introduction to Serial Fiction, 1850-1900 (Wayne State U. P., 1993)
For an explanation of reasons to teach in installments see Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund, letter to the editor, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 1999, B 11.
For student responses to reading serially, see Lund's America's Continuing Story, Appendix B, pp. 135-49, which includes a sample syllabus. Other syllabi are on provided on Lund's home page.
For dates and parts' content in serialization, see J. Don Vann, Victorian Novels in Serial (MLA, 1985) and Lund's America's Continuing Story.