Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s

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.

• 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