Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: A Global Nineteenth-Century Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781137601285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 309 str.

Alberto Gabriele

Opis

This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this volume also disperses its history over a longue duree, allowing readers to perceive the hidden and often unacknowledged continuities throughout a period that is often reduced to the confines of the national disciplines of literature, art, and cultural studies. Providing a wide range of methodological approaches from the fields of literary studies, art history, sociology of literature, and visual culture, this collection offers indispensable examples of the relation between literature and several other media. Topics include the rhetorical tropes of popular culture, the material culture of clothing, the lived experience of performance as a sub-text of literature and painting, and the redefinition of spatiality and temporality in theory, art, and literature.

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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

O autorze

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.

Blurb

This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this volume also disperses its history over a longue durée, allowing readers to perceive the hidden and often unacknowledged continuities throughout a period that is often reduced to the confines of the national disciplines of literature, art, and cultural studies. Providing a wide range of methodological approaches from the fields of literary studies, art history, sociology of literature, and visual culture, this collection offers indispensable examples of the relation between literature and several other media. Topics include the rhetorical tropes of popular culture, the material culture of clothing, the lived experience of performance as a sub-text of literature and painting, and the redefinition of spatiality and temporality in theory, art, and

literature.