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Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Literary history offers a guide to the canon of great books. It matters little whether one picks up a history of literature from the nineteenth century or a modern one; they all tend to more or less salvage a small collection of books from the ocean of those published. For the year 1809, for example, any given history of German literature will highlight Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities), as if no other work of literature had been published that year. This is the case regardless of whether one consults Hermann Hettner's literary history from 1870 or R. H. Stephenson's essay on the novel in Weimar classicism from 2005. A brief perusal of a book catalogue from around 1809, however, suggests an alternative to this canonical picture of literary history. Approximately one hundred German novels were published in 1809. Among the widely read novels included in this list are, for example, the third volume of August Lafontaine's Die beiden Bräute (The Two Brides) and August Kotzebue's Philbert oder die Verhältnisse (Philbert or the Circumstances). The canon is one story; the cultural history of read books is another. For those who believe that literary history should be more than the history of great books, a corpus-based approach offers one way of dealing with the thousands of books that actually circulated. And we are not using “thousands” metaphorically in speaking of the literary history of the nineteenth century, even when we limit ourselves to the German-speaking countries.
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
Edited by
Matt Erlin, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,Lynne Tatlock, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis
In nineteenth-century Germany, breakthroughs in printing technology and an increasingly literate populace led to an unprecedented print production boom that has long presented scholars with a challenge: how to read it all? This anthology seeks new answers to the scholarly quandary of the abundance of text. Responding to Franco Moretti's call for "distant reading" and modeling a range of innovative approaches to literary-historical analysis informed by theburgeoning field of digital humanities, it asks what happens when we shift our focus from the one to the many, from the work to the network. The thirteen essays in this volume explore the evolving concept of "distant reading" and its application to the analysis of German literature and culture in the long nineteenth century. The contributors consider how new digital technologies enable both the testing of hypotheses and the discovery of patterns and trends, as well as how "distant" and traditional "close" reading can complement each another in hybrid models of analysis that maintain careful attention to detail, but also make calculation, enumeration, and empirical descriptioncritical elements of interpretation. Contributors: Kirsten Belgum, Tobias Boes, Matt Erlin, Fotis Jannidis and Gerhard Lauer, Lutz Koepnick, Todd Kontje, Peter M. McIsaac, Katja Mellmann, Nicolas Pethes, Andrew Piper and Mark Algee-Hewitt, Allen Beye Riddell, Lynne Tatlock, Paul A. Youngman and Ted Carmichael. Matt Erlin is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis.
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