Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s

This volume examines the emergence of modern popular culture between the 1830s and the 1860s, when popular storytelling meant serial storytelling and when new printing techniques and an expanding infrastructure brought serial entertainment to the masses. Analyzing fiction and non-fiction narratives from the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Brazil, Popular Culture—Serial Culture offers a transnational perspective on border-crossing serial genres from the roman feuilleton and the city mystery novel to abolitionist gift books and world’s fairs.

Daniel Stein is Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany.Lisanna Wiele is a PhD candidate in North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany.