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

Chapter 1 Introducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s

Chapter 2 The Beginnings of the Feuilleton Novel in France and the German-Speaking Regions

Chapter 3 Spectacular, Spectacular: Early Paris Mysteries and Dramas

Chapter 4 The Interaction between Serial Fictions and Nonfictional Texts in the Kölnische Zeitung in the 1850s and 1860s

Chapter 5 Brazilian–French Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859–1862)

Chapter 6 A Distant Reading of the Ottoman/Turkish Serial Novel Tradition (1831–1908)

Chapter 7 Between Hamburg and Boston: Frederick Gleason and the Rise of Serial Fiction in the United States

Chapter 8 The Serial Character of Abolition: Charting Transatlantic and Gendered Critiques of Slavery in The Liberty Bell

Chapter 9 Ride with Capitola: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand as a “Loud Text” in Serial Antebellum Culture

Chapter 10 Counting (on) Crime in De Quincey and Poe: Seriality, Crime Statistics, and the Emergence of a Mass Literary Market

Chapter 11 Serial Culture in the Nineteenth Century: G.W.M. Reynolds, the Many Mysteries of London, and the Spread of Print

Chapter 12 The Media Mysteries of London

Chapter 13 Of Ladies, Fruit Girls, and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mystery Novels

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

Chapter 15 Henry Boernstein, Radical, and The Mysteries of St. Louis as a Political Novel

Chapter 16 Slavery as Racial Dis/order in Antebellum America: The Case of the City Mystery Novel

Chapter 17 (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City