Writing Time: Studies in Serial Literature, 1780–1850 (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) - Softcover

Franzel, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501772457 ISBN 13: 9781501772450

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Cowinner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures

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 landscapes. 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 Heinrich 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 Reinhart 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.

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About the Author

Sean Franzel is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Connected by the Ear and coeditor and cotranslator of Reinhart Koselleck's Sediments of Time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501772457
• ISBN 13: 9781501772450
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432