Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword
Chapter 1: Nineteenth-century transmedia practices: An introduction
	Nineteenth-century Anglophone mediascapes
	What are transmedia practices?
	The structure of this volume
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part I: Technology, culture, democracy
	Chapter 2: Literary events and real policies: The transmedia cases of Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) and George Chesney’s The Battle of Dorking (1871)
		Another kind of transmedia practice: literary events spreading into policies
		Novels, institutions, and architecture: Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men and the people’s palace
		The literary-military complex: Chesney’s The Battle of Dorking and the future-war novel
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 3: Telephonic conversations: The phone and transmedia competition in the culture of the progressive era
		Introduction
		The phone and Twain’s-mediality
		AT&T calling
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: Transmedial experience in nineteenth-century live theater broadcasting
		Introduction
		The workings of early broadcasting technologies in fiction and the British press
		Extended engagement as an aspect of the nineteenth-century transmedial experience
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 5: Rose O’Neill’s Kewpies and early transmedia practices
		Introduction
		Early transmedia
		Comics and transmedia
		The origins of the Kewpies
		Assembling the narrative
		Promoting Kewpies promoting Jell-O
		Conclusion: the Kewpies and suffrage
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part II: Crossroads of fact and fiction
	Chapter 6: Transmedia practices toward a popular cultural sphere: Lippard, Thompson, and nineteenth-century serialities
		Introduction
		Transmedia texts
		Theatrical transmedia
		Conclusion: transnational transmedia
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: “She lectured and attended lectures”: Transmedia practices and female vocality in late-nineteenth-century cultures of public lecturing and mass print
		Introduction: female vocality and transmedial mass culture
		Embodied authority in speech and print: enhancing/silencing female voices
		Transmedia practices redeployed in the women’s emancipation movement
		Turn-of-the-century technophobia: silencing female vocality (again)?
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: Mobilizations: How Nellie Bly traveled the world
		Introduction
		Engines of dispersal: competitions/contests
		The modern girl in motion and at display
		Coda
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part III: Transmedia Sherlock
	Chapter 9: “To just steal the name of a character”: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the conditions of transmedia dispersion
		Introduction
		Sherlock Holmes’ dispersal across media
		The British periodical industry and conditions for transmedia dispersion
		Intellectual Property and Authorial Control as Conditions for Geographical and Transmedia Dispersion
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 10: Creating transmedia fan engagement in Victorian periodicals: The case of Sherlock Holmes
		Introduction
		Serial publishing and the rise of Sherlock Holmes
		Sherlock Holmes and copyright
		Victorian celebrity, fan mail, and Sherlock Holmes proto-fandom
		Advertising and cross-promotion as methods of proto-fan engagement
		Victorian periodicals and transmedia engagement practices
		Keeping Holmes alive: contests and quizzes as strategies of proto-fan engagement
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
Index