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