Publications and Talks
Publications
- Stein, Daniel. “‘Holes Swarming with Human Beings’: Racing the Urban Underclass in the Antebellum City Mystery Novel.” The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor. Ed. Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein, and Cathy C. Waegner eds., 2022. 45-65.
- Wiele, Lisanna. “Transgression Inscribed – The City Mysteries’ ‘Queer’ Urbanity.” U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture. Ed. Astrid Böger and Florian Sedlmeier. Heidelberg: Winter, forthcoming.
- Wiele, Lisanna. “Transmedia Practices Toward a Popular Cultural Sphere: Lippard, Thompson, and Nineteenth-Century Serialities.” Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Christina Meyer and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. London: Routledge, 2022.
- Stein, Daniel, and Lisanna Wiele, eds. Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s: Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- ---, and Lisanna Wiele. “Introducing Popular Culture – Serial Culture: Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s.” Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s: Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 1-15.
- Stein, Daniel. “Slavery as Racial Dis/order in Antebellum American: The Case of the City Mystery Novel.” Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s: Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 287-309.
- Wiele, Lisanna. “Dead Man Walking: On the Physical and Geographical Manifestations of Sociopolitical Narratives in George Thompson’s City Crimes – or Life in New York and Boston.”Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s: Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 247-270.
- Stein, Daniel. “Serial Politics in Antebellum America: On the Cultural Work of the City-Mystery Genre.” Media of Serial Narrative. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2017. 53-73.
- Stein, Daniel. “Transatlantic Politics as Serial Networks in the German-American City Mystery Novel, 1850-1855.” Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks. Ed. Erik Redling. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2016. 249-267.
- Stein, Daniel. “Race, Gender, Sex, Class, Nation: Serienpolitik zwischen Sehnsucht und Heimsuchung in Ludwig von Reizensteins Die Geheimnisse von New-Orleans (1854–1855).” Sehnsucht suchen? Amerikanische Topographien aus komparatistischer Perspektive. Ed. Simone Sauer-Kretschmer and Christian A. Bachmann. Berlin: Chr. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2014. 39-69.
- Stein, Daniel. Rev. of Stephen Knight, The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. In: Clues 30.2 (2012): 109-111.
Talks
- Wiele, Lisanna. “Transgression Inscribed – The City Mysteries’ ‘Queer’ Urbanity.” Workshop The Big City as the Small Screen: Negotiating Popular Culture’s Scripts of Urbanity. Annual Conference Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, University of Hamburg, June 5, 2019.
- Stein, Daniel. “Superhelden und Superschurken in US-amerikanischen Bestsellerromanen um 1850.” Ringvorlesung Bestseller – Blockbuster – Triple A: Die populärsten Titel. University of Siegen, Oct. 23, 2018.
- Stein, Daniel. “Crime Scenes as Popular Public Spheres in Antebellum City Mystery Novels.” Workshop Taverns, Salons, and Vaudeville Theaters: Space and Public Spheres in Nineteenth Century America. Annual Conference Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, FU Berlin, May 26, 2018.
- Stein, Daniel. “Festering Corruption and Vice in High Places: Narrating Crime and Dis/Order in Antebellum America.” Maurice Halbwachs Summer School, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Sept. 3, 2016.
- Stein, Daniel. “A Revolution in Novel Writing? Antebellum City Mysteries and the Beginnings of American Popular Culture.” W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures. Humboldt Universität Berlin, June 21, 2016.
- Stein, Daniel. “Der deutsch-amerikanische Geheimnisroman um 1850: Ein literarischer und Historischer Überblick.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Gesellschaft Siegerland-Wittgenstein e.V.. 12.4.2016.
- Stein, Daniel. “The City Mystery Novel: Genre of 1848?” Institutskolloquium John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin, April 30, 2014.
- Stein, Daniel. “Transatlantic Politics and Literary Practices in the German-American Mystery Novel, 1850-1855.” Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Negotiations of Cultural Concepts in Transatlantic Intellectual Networks. Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, April 17, 2014.
- Stein, Daniel. “Formen des Fortsetzens, oder Produktion ist Rezeption ist Produktion.“ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 13.1.2014.
- Stein, Daniel. “Serial Politicization in Antebellum America: On the Cultural Work of the City Mystery Genre.” Popular Seriality International Conference, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, June 7, 2013.
- Stein, Daniel. “The Politics of Serial Storytelling: American City Mysteries and Popular Culture in the Antebellum Era.” The Ohio State University, Apr. 18, 2013.
- Wiele, Lisanna. “City Politics, Seriality, and Popular Literature in Antebellum America – The City Mysteries by George Lippard, Ned Buntline & George Thompson.” American Antiquarian Society, Nov. 9, 2015; University of Pittsburgh, Nov. 23, 2015.
- Wiele, Lisanna. "Politics in Print: (In)visible Agendas in Antebellum City Literature." CLST Popular Print Culture Working Group, University of Pittsburgh, Nov. 20, 2015.