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 CultureSerial 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.

Focuses on the transnational aspects in continental Europe and beyond of popular fiction in serial form Argues that popular serial storytelling was one of the decisive forces reshaping nineteenth-century cultures and societies across the Western hemisphere Investigates the many networks producing and produced by serial popular fiction, the emergence of a transnational print culture, and the workings of an increasingly international market for books and periodicals at a crucial point in the formation of popular culture

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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.

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'Popular CultureSerial Culture is the first book to explore serial fiction and the city-mysteries novel in a transatlantic context. Thoughtfully edited and introduced by Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele, Popular CultureSerial Culture features original essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century serial publication by scholars from various countries. This book is an important and timely contribution to book history and transatlantic cultural studies.'
David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America and Beneath the American Renaissance

'Popular CultureSerial Culture addresses in a comprehensive and thoughtful way a significant gap in our scholarship on early popular culture: the complicated and generative transnational circulation of serial texts through an increasingly frenetic popular print culture defined by piracies, borrowings, and adaptations. Popular CultureSerial Culture allows us to reorient our understanding of popular culture by finally making visible how popular culture was always complicating national borders and literary cultures in ways that have ramifications for how we must understand pop culture today.'
Jared Gardner, Professor and Director of Popular Culture Studies at The Ohio State University, USA, and author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 and The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture 'As an enthusiast for the transnational turn in literary studies, with a special interest in the nineteenth-century serial boom, I am delighted to see this fine collection in print.'
Graham Law, Professor in Media History, Waseda University, Japan

Inhalt
1 Introducing Popular CultureSerial Culture: Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s1860s 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 BrazilianFrench Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 18591862) 81Ricarda MusseIntroducing Popular CultureSerial Culture: SerialNarrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s1860s6 A Distant Reading of the Ottoman/Turkish Serial Novel Tradition (18311908) 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 Crimesor 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