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

This volume examines the emergence of modern popular culture between the 1830s and the 1860s, when popular storytelling meant serial storytelling and when new printing techniques and an expanding infrastructure brought serial entertainment to the masses. Analyzing fiction and non-fiction narratives from the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Brazil,
Popular Culture—Serial Culture offers a transnational perspective on border-crossing serial genres from the
roman feuilleton and the city mystery novel to abolitionist gift books and world’s fairs.

Cuprins

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

Despre autor

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.