Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity

Chapter 1 Introduction: Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: Transnational Currents, Intermedial Trajectories—A Global Nineteenth-Century Approach

Chapter 2 Irony and Popular Politics in Germany, 1800–1850

Chapter 3 The Horror of Clothing and the Clothing of Horror: Material and Meaning in Gothic and Sensation Fiction

Chapter 4 Adelaide, Sensationalism and the Development of New Journalism in the Early History of the South Australian Press

Chapter 5 Urban Perils and the Sensational Bicycle: Text-Image Dynamics in the Victorian Magazine Cycling, 1894–1896

Chapter 6 Destructive Re-Creations: Spectacles of Urban Destruction in Turn-of-the-Century USA

Chapter 7 The Magician’s Box of Tricks: Fantômas, Popular Literature, and the Spectacular Imagination

Chapter 8 Sawing People in Half: Sensationalist Magic Tricks and the Role of Women on Stage in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapter 9 Sensational Voices: Premodern Theatricality, Early Cinema, and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Fin-de-siècle Vienna

Chapter 10 The Whole Thing (and Other Things): From Panorama to Attraction in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” Ashcan Painting, and Early Cinema

Chapter 11 Urban Metaphysics versus Metropolitan Dynamisms: The Italian Vision Before the First World War

Chapter 12 Spatiality and Temporality in Benjamin and Adorno

Chapter 13 The Sensibilities of Semicolonial Shanghai: A Phenomenological Study of the Short Stories by Liu Na’ou