Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this volume offers a wide-ranging survey of periodical research today. It illustrates the shift from content-related investigations and archival recovery to multidisciplinary analyses which consider, for instance, how magazines, newspapers, and other serial print products shape our opinions and help us to form like-minded communities. International specialists explore periodicals as relational artefacts, highlighting editorial constellations, material conditions, translation, design, marketing, and the consumption of newspapers and magazines from the late seventeenth to the twenty-first century. A must-read for academic and interested readers who wish to explore new and relevant ways to analyze periodicals.
Jutta Ernst is Professor of North American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Among her more recent publications are Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim (2020, co-edited with Brigitte Johanna Glaser) and Amerikanische Modernismen: Schreibweisen, Konzepte und zeitgenössische Periodika als Vermittlungsinstanzen (2018).
Dagmar von Hoff is Professor of German Literature and Chair of German Media Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Major recent publications include a critical edition of Frank Wedekind's Frühlings Erwachen: Eine Kindertragödie, (ed., 2020).
Oliver Scheiding is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His new book Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Culture is planned for 2023.
Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Note on Contributors
Introduction: Periodical Studies as a Transepistemic Field
âJutta Ernst and Oliver Scheiding
i: Seriality and Order
Seriality and Order
âOliver Scheiding
1 The Object of Periodical Studies
âGustav Frank and Madleen Podewski
2 Reading Illustrated Magazines with Wittgenstein: Methodological Approaches to the Visual Seriality of Illustrated Magazines (1880â1910)
âVincent Fröhlich
ii: Materiality
Materiality
âOliver Scheiding
3 Signifikanz des Typographischen oder Was Kleists »Marionettentheater« mit Extrablättern vom April 1814 anläÃlich der Einnahme von Paris verbindet: Konzeptuelle Ãberlegungen zum materialphilologischen Umgang mit »Journalliteratur«
âNicola Kaminski
5 Millions of Old Newspapers: Back Number Budd and the Materiality of the Periodical
âEllen Gruber Garvey
iii: Multimodality
Multimodality
âOliver Scheiding
6 The Semiotic Work Design Can Do: A Multimodal Approach to Visual Storytelling
âHans-Martin Rall and Wibke Weber
7 Magazines, Affects, and Atmosphere
âSabina Fazli
8 Indie Magazines and the Metafunction of Visual Identity
âAbby Hohenstatt
iv: Translation
Translation
âJutta Ernst
9 Translation and Periodical Studies: The Pionierâs Rewriting of Frank Norrisâs The Octopus
âFlorian Freitag
10 Transnationale Avantgarde-Zeitschriften als Verhandlungsforen europäischer Kunst, Gesellschaft und Politik: Contimporanul und Integral
âIulia-Karin Patrut
v: Infrastructure and Agency
Infrastructure and Agency
âOliver Scheiding
11 Die Zeitung als Akteur: Theoretische, heuristische und methodische Zugänge in der modernen Mediengeschichte
âMaximilian Kutzner
12 Under the Cover of Religious Periodicals: Magazine Agency and Newsroom Practice
âOliver Scheiding and Anja-Maria Bassimir
vi: Community
Community
âJutta Ernst
13 Metropolitan Communities: Periodicity and Participation in Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing and Penny Fiction Weeklies
âAnne-Julia Zwierlein
14 Romanticismâs Little Magazines: The Nineteenth-Century Avant-Garde and Collective Position-Taking in The Dial
âClemens Spahr
vii: Location and Transfer
Location and Transfer
âJutta Ernst
15 Reenvisioning the Canon: Three Early American Printers and Their Transnational Routes
âMark J. Noonan
16 The Periodical Press in the Upper Rhine (1780â1810): Cultural Transfers and Cross-Border Figures
âAnaïs Nagel
17 Transcultural Careers in the Periodical Press: Fleury Mesplet and Paul-Marc Sauvalle as Transatlantic Mediators
âHans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Index
The volume addresses specialists and (post-graduate) students from literary and cultural studies, media and communication studies, journalism studies, translation studies, and library science as well as a more general readership interested in print culture and the history of the book.