Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781032110943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 194 str.

Christina Meyer; Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Opis

This volume provides engaging accounts with transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century and offers model analyses of Victorian media (e.g., theater, advertising, books, games, newspapers) alongside the technological, economic, and cultural conditions under which they emerged in the Anglophone world.

Spis treści

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