Daniel Stein & Lisanna Wiele 
Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s [PDF ebook] 
Popular Culture—Serial Culture

1 Introducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s 1

Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele Part I The Transnational Spread of the Feuilleton Novel 17 2 The Beginnings of the Feuilleton Novel in France and the

German-Speaking Regions 19 Norbert Bachleitner 3 Spectacular, Spectacular: Early Paris Mysteries and Dramas 49

Walburga Hülk

4 The Interaction between Serial Fictions and Nonfictional Texts in the Kölnische Zeitung in the 1850s and 1860s 65

Fabian Grumbrecht
5 Brazilian–French Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859–1862) 81
Ricarda Musse Introducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s

6 A Distant Reading of the Ottoman/Turkish Serial Novel Tradition (1831–1908) 95

Reyhan Tutumlu and Ali Serdar

Part II The Antebellum Literary Market: Authors,

Publishers, Institutions 115

7 Between Hamburg and Boston: Frederick Gleason and the Rise of Serial Fiction in the United States 117

Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray

8 The Serial Character of Abolition: Charting Transatlantic and Gendered Critiques of Slavery in The Liberty Bell 145

Pia Wiegmink

9 Ride with Capitola: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand as a “Loud Text” in Serial Antebellum Culture 161

Gunter Süß

10 Counting (on) Crime in De Quincey and Poe: Seriality, Crime Statistics, and the Emergence of a Mass Literary

Market 175

Nicola Glaubitz

Part III The City Mystery Novel in England and the United

States 191

11 Serial Culture in the Nineteenth Century: G.W.M.Reynolds, the Many Mysteries of London, and the Spread of

Print 193
Mark W.Turner

12 The Media Mysteries of London 213

Tanja Weber

13 Of Ladies, Fruit Girls, and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mystery Novels 231

Heike Steinhoff

14 Dead Man Walking: On the Physical and Geographical Manifestations of Sociopolitical Narratives in George

Thompson’s City Crimes—or Life in New York and Boston 247

Lisanna Wiele

15 Henry Boernstein, Radical, and The Mysteries of St. Louis as a Political Novel 271

Matthias Göritz

16 Slavery as Racial Dis/order in Antebellum America: The Case of the City Mystery Novel 287

Daniel Stein

17 (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum

New York City 311

Florian Groß

Index 329

Daniel Stein is Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany.
Lisanna Wiele is a Ph D candidate in North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany.