Reading popular culture in Victorian print : Belgravia and sensationalism

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Reading popular culture in Victorian print : Belgravia and sensationalism

Alberto Gabriele

(Nineteenth-century major lives and letters)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265) and index

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Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism is a comprehensive study of the whole run of the monthly periodical Belgravia under the direction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It traces the material history of the magazine, its production and global distribution while at the same time placing its history and content in the context of Victorian popular culture and Victorian discursive formations. Among the questions Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print investigates are the status of authors in the marketplace, the innovative place Belgravia holds in the history of print culture, the rhetoric of sensationalism in fiction, journalism and pre-cinema, the representation of trade with India, and the use of urban space as a branding strategy. It makes the claim that the periodical is the sensation novel of the 1860s.

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Preface Introduction: The Cultural Trope of Sensationalism The Case of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Belgravia: Research Methodology for an Intertextual Reading of the Periodical Press Abstract Order and Fleeting Sensations: The Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Belgravia The Redefinition of the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Debate on Anonymity The Cultural Trope of Sensationalism: Advertising, Industrial Journalism, and Global Trade in Belgravia Sensationalism and the Early History of Film: From Magic Lanterns to the Silent Film Serial Drama of Louis Feuillade Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Paris: Sensational Periodical Literature across the Channel in the 1870-80s

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