Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity

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.

• Introduction: “Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: Transnational Currents, Intermedial Trajectories. A Global Nineteenth-Century Approach”.- I. Sensational Tactics in the Nineteenth-Century.- James Brophy, “Irony and Popular Politics in Germany, 1800-1850”.- Stefanie Lethbridge, “The Horror of Clothing and the Clothing of Horror: Material and Meaning in Gothic and Sensation Fiction”.- Anthony Laube, “Adelaide, Sensationalism and the Development of New Journalism in the Early History of the South Australian Press”.- 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.- Hélène Valance, “Destructive Re-creations: Spectacles of Urban Destruction in Turn-of-the-Century United States”.- Matthieu Letourneux, “The Magician’s Box of Tricks: Fantômas, Popular Literature, and the the Spectacular imagination”.- Katharina Rein, “Sawing People in Half: Sensationalist Magic Tricks and the Gendered Space of Performance in the Early Twentieth Century”.- 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.- Michael Devine, “The Whole Thing (and Other Things): from Panorama to Attraction in Stephen Crane’s ‘The Open Boat,’ Ashcan Painting, and Early Cinema”.- Ester Coen, “Urban Metaphysics versus Metropolitan Dynamisms: The Italian Vision before WW1”.- Anat Messing Marcus, “Spatiality and Temporality in Benjamin and Adorno”.- Aubrey Tang, “The Sensibilities of Semicolonial Shanghai: A Phenomenological Study of the Short Stories by Liu Na'ou”.- Notes on Contributors.- Bibliography.- Index