Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s: Popular Culture—Serial Culture(Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and 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.

Table of Contents:
1 Introducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s 1Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele Part I The Transnational Spread of the Feuilleton Novel 17 2 The Beginnings of the Feuilleton Novel in France and theGerman-Speaking Regions 19 Norbert Bachleitner 3 Spectacular, Spectacular: Early Paris Mysteries and Dramas 49Walburga Hülk4 The Interaction between Serial Fictions and Nonfictional Texts in the Kölnische Zeitung in the 1850s and 1860s 65Fabian Grumbrecht5 Brazilian–French Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859–1862) 81Ricarda MusseIntroducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: SerialNarrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s6 A Distant Reading of the Ottoman/Turkish Serial Novel Tradition (1831–1908) 95Reyhan Tutumlu and Ali SerdarPart II The Antebellum Literary Market: Authors,Publishers, Institutions 1157 Between Hamburg and Boston: Frederick Gleason and the Rise of Serial Fiction in the United States 117Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray8 The Serial Character of Abolition: Charting Transatlantic and Gendered Critiques of Slavery in The Liberty Bell 145Pia Wiegmink9 Ride with Capitola: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand as a “Loud Text” in Serial Antebellum Culture 161Gunter Süß10 Counting (on) Crime in De Quincey and Poe: Seriality,Crime Statistics, and the Emergence of a Mass LiteraryMarket 175Nicola GlaubitzPart III The City Mystery Novel in England and the UnitedStates 19111 Serial Culture in the Nineteenth Century: G.W.M.Reynolds, the Many Mysteries of London, and the Spread ofPrint 193Mark W.Turner12 The Media Mysteries of London 213Tanja Weber13 Of Ladies, Fruit Girls, and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mystery Novels 231Heike Steinhoff14 Dead Man Walking: On the Physical and Geographical Manifestations of Sociopolitical Narratives in GeorgeThompson’s City Crimes—or Life in New York and Boston 247Lisanna Wiele15 Henry Boernstein, Radical, and The Mysteries of St. Louis as a Political Novel 271Matthias Göritz16 Slavery as Racial Dis/order in Antebellum America: The Case of the City Mystery Novel 287Daniel Stein17 (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of AntebellumNew York City 311Florian GroßIndex 329

About the Author :
Daniel Stein is Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. Lisanna Wiele is a PhD candidate in North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany.