Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print (eBook)

ALBERTO GABRIELE studied Philology and Literary Criticism at the University of Florence, Italy, where he was awarded a laurea with honors. A recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, he holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from New York University's Comparative Literature Department. His research interests are the history of the novel, the relation between the written text and visual culture, and the history of film.

Preface Introduction: The Cultural Trope of Sensationalism The Case of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Belgravia: Research Methodology for an Intertextual Reading of the Periodical Press  Abstract Order and Fleeting Sensations: The Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Belgravia The Redefinition of the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Debate on Anonymity The Cultural Trope of Sensationalism: Advertising, Industrial Journalism, and Global Trade in Belgravia Sensationalism and the Early History of Film: From Magic Lanterns to the Silent Film Serial Drama of Louis Feuillade Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Paris: Sensational Periodical Literature across the Channel in the 1870-80s