Writing Time : : Studies in Serial Literature, 1780–1850 / / Sean Franzel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Franzel, Sean,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 25 b&w halftones, 1 chart

Writing Time shows how serial literature based in journals and anthologies shaped the awareness of time at a transformative moment in the European literary and political landscape. Sean Franzel explores how German-speaking authors and editors "write time" both by writing about time and by mapping time itself through specific literary formats.Through case studies of such writers as F. J. Bertuch, K. A. Böttinger, J. W. Goethe, Ludwig Börne, and Henrich Heine, Franzel analyzes how serial writing predicated on open-ended continuation becomes a privileged mode of social commentary and literary entertainment and provides readers with an ongoing "history" of the present, or Zeitgeschichte. Drawing from media theory and periodical studies as well as from Reinhardt Koselleck's work on processes of temporalization and "untimely" models of historical time, Writing Time presents "smaller" literary forms—the urban tableau, cultural reportage, and caricature—as new ways of imagining temporal unfolding, recentering periodicals and other serial forms at the heart of nineteenth-century print culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Tableaux mouvants -- Introduction -- 1. Bertuch’s Modejournal: Cultural Journalism in an Age of Revolution -- 2. Goethe’s The Roman Carnival and Its Afterlives -- 3. Caricature and Ephemeral Print in London und Paris -- Part II Miscellanies of Time -- Introduction -- 4 Jean Paul’s Paper Festivals -- 5 Jean Paul’s Incomplete Works -- Part III Contemporary Histories (ZEITGESCHICHTEN) -- Introduction -- 6 Waiting for the Revolution (Ludwig Börne) -- 7 Heine’s Serial Histories of the Revolution -- Afterword: Serial Literature’s Untimely Afterlives? -- Bibliography -- Index