Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity (eBook)

Alberto Gabriele is the author of Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism and the forthcoming The Emergence of Precinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination. He is working on a project on the global circulation of print culture in the 1860s and has been, most recently, a Macgeorge fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

CONTENTS   List of Illustrations   Acknowledgments     Introduction   “Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: Transnational Currents, Intermedial Trajectories. A Global Nineteenth-Century Approach”   I. Sensational Tactics in the Nineteenth-Century   Chapter 1 James Brophy, “Irony and Popular Politics in Germany, 1800-1850” Chapter 2 Stefanie Lethbridge, “The Horror of Clothing and the Clothing of Horror: Material and Meaning in Gothic and Sensation Fiction” Chapter 3 Anthony Laube, “Adelaide, Sensationalism and the Development of New Journalism in the Early History of the South Australian Press” Chapter 4 Efrat Pashut, "Urban Perils and the Sensational Bicycle: Text-Image Dynamics in the Victorian Magazine Cycling, 1894-96”   II. Transmedial Trajectories: the Vanishing Act of Performance   Chapter 5   Hélène Valance, “Destructive Re-creations: Spectacles of Urban Destruction in Turn-of-the-Century United States”   Chapter 6     Matthieu Letourneux, “The Magician’s Box of Tricks: Fantômas, Popular Literature, and the the Spectacular imagination”   Chapter 7   Katharina Rein, “Sawing People in Half: Sensationalist Magic Tricks and the Gendered Space of Perfor-mance in the Early Twentieth Century”   Chapter 8   Sabine Müller, “Sensational Voices. Premodern Theatricality, Early Cinema, and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Fin-de-siècle Vienna”     III. Visualizing the space of industrial modernity   Chapter 9  Michael Devine, “The Whole Thing (and Other Things): from Panorama to Attraction in Stephen Crane’s ‘The Open Boat,’ Ashcan Painting, and Early Cinema”   Chapter 10   Ester Coen, “Urban Metaphysics versus Metropolitan Dynamisms: The Italian Vision before WW1”   Chapter 11   Anat Messing Marcus, “Spatiality and Temporality in Benjamin and Adorno”   Chapter 12   Aubrey Tang, “The Sensibilities of Semicolonial Shanghai: A Phenomenological Study of the Short Stories by Liu Na'ou”   Notes on Contributors   Bibliography   Index