Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print Belgravia and Sensationalism

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the history of print culture through the lens of a study of the innovative monthly periodical Belgravia.

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