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. Foreword 6 Contents 8 Notes on Contributors 11 List of Figures 17 List of Tables 18 Chapter 1: Introducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s 19 Works Cited 30 Part I: The Transnational Spread of the Feuilleton Novel 34 Chapter 2: The Beginnings of the Feuilleton Novel in France and the German-Speaking Regions 35 Elements of a Theory of the Feuilleton Novel 35 The Beginnings of the Serial Novel in France 39 Eugène Sue: Les Mystères de Paris 40 Eugène Sue: Le Juif errant 42 The Reception of the French Feuilleton Novel in Germany and the Beginnings of the German Feuilleton Novel 43 Georg Weerth: Leben und Thaten des berühmten Ritters Schnapphahnski 45 Karl Gutzkow: Die Ritter vom Geiste 48 The Beginnings of the Feuilleton Novel in Austria and the Founding of the Presse as a Quality Newspaper 53 The Popular Press 55 Eduard Breier: Die beiden Grasel 56 Conclusion 61 Works Cited 62 Chapter 3: Spectacular, Spectacular: Early Paris Mysteries and Dramas 65 Serial Literature/Industrial Literature in Nineteenth-Century France 65 Popular Culture and Spectacular Realities, the Boulevard, and Boulevardization 69 Eugène Sue, His Literary Strategies, and His Public: A First Climax of Serial Culture 73 Works Cited 78 Chapter 4: The Interaction between Serial Fictions and Nonfictional Texts in the Kölnische Zeitung in the 1850s and 1860s 81 Across the Dividing Line 82 Paratextual Functions in the 1850s 85 Paratextual Functions in the 1860s 88 Conclusion 92 Works Cited 94 Chapter 5: Brazilian–French Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859–1862) 96 The Brazilian Literary Market in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 96 The Concept Behind the Revista Popular 99 Debating Novels, Translations, and the Development of Brazilian Literature 100 Novels, Series, and Authors 103 The New, the Autonomous, and Garnier 105 Works Cited 107 Chapter 6: A Distant Reading of the Ottoman/Turkish Serial Novel Tradition (1831–1908) 109 Analysis of the Data According to Periodicals and Writer Profiles 113 Analysis of Data According to Years 117 Conclusion 124 Appendix: Chronological List of Examined Periodicals 124 Works Cited 128 Part II: The Antebellum Literary Market: Authors, Publishers, Institutions 129 Chapter 7: Between Hamburg and Boston: Frederick Gleason and the Rise of Serial Fiction in the United States 130 Works Cited 149 Chapter 8: The Serial Character of Abolition: Charting Transatlantic and Gendered Critiques of Slavery in The Liberty Bell 157 Works Cited 169 Chapter 9: Ride with Capitola: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand as a “Loud Text” in Serial Antebellum Culture 172 The Loud Text as a New Analytical Category 174 The Hidden Hand as a Loud Text 175 The Loudness of Story Papers and Serials 178 Challenges of Studying Serials 182 Works Cited 184 Chapter 10: Counting (on) Crime in De Quincey and Poe: Seriality, Crime Statistics, and the Emergence of a Mass Literary Market 186 Counting Crime—Serial Crime? 187 Violence and the Emerging Mass Literary Market: De Quincey’s “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” and Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 191 Edgar Allan Poe: Marie Rogêt and Mary Rogers 194 The Logic of Serial Popularity 197 Works Cited 199 Part III: The City Mystery Novel in England and the United States 202 Chapter 11: Serial Culture in the Nineteenth Century: G.W.M. Reynolds, the Many Mysteries of London, and the Spread of Print 203 Global Serial Media 203 The Explosion of Serial Print 207 Serial Mysteries of London 209 Networks of Print 215 Conclusion 218 Works Cited 219 Chapter 12: The Media Mysteries of London 222 Mediated Form 224 Mediated Content 227 Incorporating Media 234 Conclusion 236 Works Cited 238 Chapter 13: Of Ladies, Fruit Girls, and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mystery Novels 240 Introduction: Sex and the City (Mystery) 240 Urban Seductions 244 Sexual Transgressions 247 Conclusion 252 Works Cited 253 Chapter 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 256 Frank Sydney’s Descent into the City 260 New York’s Five Points District and Thompson’s Dark Vaults 263 The Dead Man as Manifestation of Social Ills 270 After the City 276 Works Cited 278 Chapter 15: Henry Boernstein, Radical, and The Mysteries of St. Louis as a Political Novel 280 Introduction 280 The Conception of a Political Novel 285 Bad Endings–Happy Endings 290 Conclusion: Marriage–Ending–Political Message 292 Works Cited 294 Chapter 16: Slavery as Racial Dis/order in Antebellum America: The Case of the City Mystery Novel 296 Black Characters, Plotting Slavery 298 The Future of the Republic 311 Narrating Racial Dis/order 313 Works Cited 315 Chapter 17: (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City 319 Mid-Century New York City: Emerging Metropolis 321 The New York Crystal Palace: Remake, Sequel, or Adaptation? 323 George G. Foster and the Crystal Palace 329 Conclusion: Seriality and the (Re-)Making of American Popular Culture 332 Works Cited 334 Index 336 Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s (Daniel Stein, Lisanna Wiele)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 The Beginnings of the Feuilleton Novel in France and the German-Speaking Regions (Norbert Bachleitner)....Pages 19-48 Spectacular, Spectacular: Early Paris Mysteries and Dramas (Walburga Hülk)....Pages 49-64 The Interaction between Serial Fictions and Nonfictional Texts in the Kölnische Zeitung in the 1850s and 1860s (Fabian Grumbrecht)....Pages 65-79 Brazilian–French Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859–1862) (Ricarda Musser)....Pages 81-93 A Distant Reading of the Ottoman/Turkish Serial Novel Tradition (1831–1908) (Reyhan Tutumlu, Ali Serdar)....Pages 95-114 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 Between Hamburg and Boston: Frederick Gleason and the Rise of Serial Fiction in the United States (Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray)....Pages 117-143 The Serial Character of Abolition: Charting Transatlantic and Gendered Critiques of Slavery in The Liberty Bell (Pia Wiegmink)....Pages 145-159 Ride with Capitola: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand as a “Loud Text” in Serial Antebellum Culture (Gunter Süß)....Pages 161-174 Counting (on) Crime in De Quincey and Poe: Seriality, Crime Statistics, and the Emergence of a Mass Literary Market (Nicola Glaubitz)....Pages 175-190 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 Serial Culture in the Nineteenth Century: G.W.M. Reynolds, the Many Mysteries of London, and the Spread of Print (Mark W. Turner)....Pages 193-211 The Media Mysteries of London (Tanja Weber)....Pages 213-230 Of Ladies, Fruit Girls, and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mystery Novels (Heike Steinhoff)....Pages 231-246 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 (Lisanna Wiele)....Pages 247-270 Henry Boernstein, Radical, and The Mysteries of St. Louis as a Political Novel (Matthias Göritz)....Pages 271-286 Slavery as Racial Dis/order in Antebellum America: The Case of the City Mystery Novel (Daniel Stein)....Pages 287-309 (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City (Florian Groß)....Pages 311-327 Back Matter ....Pages 329-333 'Popular Culture--Serial 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 Culture--Serial 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 Culture--Serial 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 Culture--Serial 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