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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
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