(Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City

Florian Groß

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-15895-8_17

(Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City

Florian Groß

English Department

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Abstract

This chapter reads the “Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations” (1853–1854), better known as the “New York Crystal Palace,” as a significant episode in the non-narrative serial form of world’s fairs and argues that the New York Crystal Palace’s mode of transatlantic adaptation makes it structurally similar to the narrative serial genre of city mysteries. Concluding with an analysis of Fifteen Minutes Around New York, George G. Foster’s tourist guide for the fair, this chapter analyzes how the New York Crystal Palace provided new perspectives on the emerging metropolis through a cultural form that was, like the city mystery genre, transnational, popular, and serial.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s
Subtitle of host publication	Popular Culture—Serial Culture
Editors	Daniel Stein, Lisanna Wiele
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Pages	311-327
Number of pages	17
Edition	1.
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-15895-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-15897-2, 978-3-030-15894-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15895-8_17
Publication status	Published - 25 May 2019

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN (Print)	2634-6494
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-6508

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Groß, F. (2019). (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City. In D. Stein, & L. Wiele (Eds.), Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s: Popular Culture—Serial Culture (1. ed., pp. 311-327). (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15895-8_17

Groß, Florian. / (Re-)Making American Culture : The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City. Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s: Popular Culture—Serial Culture. editor / Daniel Stein ; Lisanna Wiele. 1. ed. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2019. pp. 311-327 (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)).

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Groß, F 2019, (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City. in D Stein & L Wiele (eds), Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s: Popular Culture—Serial Culture. 1. edn, Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC), Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Cham, pp. 311-327. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15895-8_17

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Groß F. (Re-)Making American Culture: The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City. In Stein D, Wiele L, editors, Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s: Popular Culture—Serial Culture. 1. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2019. p. 311-327. (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15895-8_17