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 Jutta Ernst and Oliver Scheiding
i: Seriality and Order
Seriality and Order Oliver Scheiding
1
The Object of Periodical Studies Gustav Frank and Madleen Podewski
2
Reading Illustrated Magazines with Wittgenstein: Methodological Approaches to the Visual Seriality of Illustrated Magazines (1880–1910) Vincent Fröhlich
ii: Materiality
Materiality Oliver Scheiding
3
Signifikanz des Typographischen oder Was Kleists »Marionettentheater« mit Extrablättern vom April 1814 anläßlich der Einnahme von Paris verbindet: Konzeptuelle Überlegungen zum materialphilologischen Umgang mit »Journalliteratur« Nicola Kaminski
4
Die Illustration als parole condensée für geistig Arme? Explizite und implizite Selbstreflexion im Magasin Pittoresque (1833) Andreas Beck
5
Millions of Old Newspapers: Back Number Budd and the Materiality of the Periodical Ellen Gruber Garvey
iii: Multimodality
Multimodality Oliver Scheiding
6
The Semiotic Work Design Can Do: A Multimodal Approach to Visual Storytelling Hans-Martin Rall and Wibke Weber
7
Magazines, Affects, and Atmosphere Sabina Fazli
8
Indie Magazines and the Metafunction of Visual Identity Abby Hohenstatt
iv: Translation
Translation Jutta Ernst
9
Translation and Periodical Studies: The Pionier’s Rewriting of Frank Norris’s The Octopus Florian Freitag
10
Transnationale Avantgarde-Zeitschriften als Verhandlungsforen europäischer Kunst, Gesellschaft und Politik: Contimporanul und Integral Iulia-Karin Patrut
v: Infrastructure and Agency
Infrastructure and Agency Oliver Scheiding
11
Die Zeitung als Akteur: Theoretische, heuristische und methodische Zugänge in der modernen Mediengeschichte Maximilian Kutzner
12
Under the Cover of Religious Periodicals: Magazine Agency and Newsroom Practice Oliver Scheiding and Anja-Maria Bassimir
vi: Community
Community Jutta Ernst
13
Metropolitan Communities: Periodicity and Participation in Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing and Penny Fiction Weeklies Anne-Julia Zwierlein
14
Romanticism’s Little Magazines: The Nineteenth-Century Avant-Garde and Collective Position-Taking in The Dial Clemens Spahr
vii: Location and Transfer
Location and Transfer Jutta Ernst
15
Reenvisioning the Canon: Three Early American Printers and Their Transnational Routes Mark J. Noonan
16
The Periodical Press in the Upper Rhine (1780–1810): Cultural Transfers and Cross-Border Figures Anaïs Nagel
17
Transcultural Careers in the Periodical Press: Fleury Mesplet and Paul-Marc Sauvalle as Transatlantic Mediators Hans-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.