Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century

Christina Meyer is Associate Professor of American Studies, currently working at the TU Braunschweig, Germany. She is the author of Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid (2019). Monika Pietrzak-Franger is Professor of British Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published on adaptation, transmediality, medicine and culture, (neo-)Victorianism, science, and globalization.

Foreword by Matthew Freeman; 1.Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices: An Introduction; Part I: Technology, Culture, Democracy; 2. Literary Events and Real Policies: The Transmedia Cases of Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) and George Chesney’s The Battle of Dorking (1871); 3. Telephonic Conversations: The Phone and Transmedia Competition in the Culture of the Progressive Era; 4. Transmedial Experience in Nineteenth-Century Live Theater Broadcasting; 5. Rose O’Neill’s Kewpies and Early Transmedia Practices; Part II: Crossroads of Fact and Fiction; 6. Transmedia Practices Toward a Popular Cultural Sphere: Lippard, Thompson, and Nineteenth-Century Serialities; 7. “She Lectured and Attended Lectures”: Transmedia Practices and Female Vocality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Cultures of Public Lecturing and Mass Print; 8. Mobilizations: How Nellie Bly Traveled the World; Part III: Transmedia Sherlock; 9. “To just steal the name of a character”: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Conditions of Transmedia Dispersion; 10. Creating Transmedia Fan Engagement in Victorian Periodicals: The Case of Sherlock Holmes