<div>1 Introducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s 1</div><div>Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele Part I The Transnational Spread of the Feuilleton Novel 17 2 The Beginnings of the Feuilleton Novel in France and the</div><div>German-Speaking Regions 19 Norbert Bachleitner 3 Spectacular, Spectacular: Early Paris Mysteries and Dramas 49</div><div>Walburga Hülk</div><div>4 The Interaction between Serial Fictions and Nonfictional Texts in the Kölnische Zeitung in the 1850s and 1860s 65</div><div>Fabian Grumbrecht</div>5 Brazilian–French Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859–1862) 81</div><div>Ricarda MusseIntroducing Popular Culture—Serial Culture: SerialNarrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s–1860s</div><div><div>6 A Distant Reading of the Ottoman/Turkish Serial Novel Tradition (1831–1908) 95</div><div>Reyhan Tutumlu and Ali Serdar</div><div>Part II The Antebellum Literary Market: Authors,</div><div>Publishers, Institutions 115</div><div>7 Between Hamburg and Boston: Frederick Gleason and the Rise of Serial Fiction in the United States 117</div><div>Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray</div><div>8 The Serial Character of Abolition: Charting Transatlantic and Gendered Critiques of Slavery in The Liberty Bell 145</div><div>Pia Wiegmink</div><div>9 Ride with Capitola: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand as a “Loud Text” in Serial Antebellum Culture 161</div><div>Gunter Süß</div><div>10 Counting (on) Crime in De Quincey and Poe: Seriality,Crime Statistics, and the Emergence of a Mass Literary</div><div>Market 175</div><div>Nicola Glaubitz</div><div>Part III The City Mystery Novel in England and the United</div><div>States 191</div><div>11 Serial Culture in the Nineteenth Century: G.W.M.Reynolds, the Many Mysteries of London, and the Spread of</div><div>Print 193</div>Mark W.Turner</div><div>12 The Media Mysteries of London 213</div><div>Tanja Weber</div><div><div>13 Of Ladies, Fruit Girls, and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mystery Novels 231</div><div>Heike Steinhoff</div><div>14 Dead Man Walking: On the Physical and Geographical Manifestations of Sociopolitical Narratives in George</div><div>Thompson’s City Crimes—or Life in New York and Boston 247</div><div>Lisanna Wiele</div><div>15 Henry Boernstein, Radical, and The Mysteries of St. Louis as a Political Novel 271</div><div>Matthias Göritz</div><div>16 Slavery as Racial Dis/order in Antebellum America: The Case of the City Mystery Novel 287</div><div>Daniel Stein</div><div>17 (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum</div><div>New York City 311</div><div>Florian Groß</div><div>Index 329</div></div></div>