Crystal Hall is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Bowdoin College where her teaching and research investigates the relationships between non-Anglophone languages and literatures with the technologies of analysis and translation. Birgit Tautz is George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College where her teaching and research investigate the relationships between non-Anglophone languages and literatures with the technologies of analysis and translation.

‘Overall, the book with its gesture of acknowledging openness, fractures, and incongruities, inspires ongoing debate not only about the subject matter of the eighteenth century but about the methodologies for visualization and the complexity of more fluid digital archiving and our ways of working ideally in groups of »constantly self-rearranging contributors« (306).' Karin Wurst, Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch LII

• List of figures and tablesPreface and acknowledgementsEditors’ NoteCrystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Social capital, material cultures, reading: German and European cultural histories between network and narrative around 1800I. Social CapitalMelanie Conroy, French salons as networks, before and after 1800Mary Helen Dupree, Plappermann’s Wanderjahre: Traveling declamators and knowledge circulation around 1800Joachim Homann, Luftschiff der Phantasie: Johann Christian Reinhart, Friedrich Schiller, and artistic networks circa 1800II. Material CulturesSean Franzel, Serial InventoriesRenata Schellenberg, Cultivating contacts: collectors, critics, and the public in eighteenth-century German-speaking EuropeCrystal Hall, An eighteenth-century New England library in its European, material contextIII. ReadingNacim Ghanbari, First LettersKarin Baumgartner, Mapping the nation: foreign travel in Germany 1738–1839Peter Höyng, A call for a concert of eavesdroppers: Beethoven’s conversation notebooksIV. Expansive NetworksMatt Erlin and Melanie Walsh, Social and conceptual networks in eighteenth-century German periodical literatureBirgit Tautz, K/Cosmopolit* in Enlightenment journals: of networks and translationCrystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Epilog: new networks?ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Crystal Hall is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Bowdoin College where her teaching and research investigates the relationships between non-Anglophone languages and literatures with the technologies of analysis and translation. Birgit Tautz is George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College where her teaching and research investigate the relationships between non-Anglophone languages and literatures with the technologies of analysis and translation.

‘Overall, the book with its gesture of acknowledging openness, fractures, and incongruities, inspires ongoing debate not only about the subject matter of the eighteenth century but about the methodologies for visualization and the complexity of more fluid digital archiving and our ways of working ideally in groups of »constantly self-rearranging contributors« (306).' Karin Wurst, Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch LII

• List of figures and tablesPreface and acknowledgementsEditors’ NoteCrystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Social capital, material cultures, reading: German and European cultural histories between network and narrative around 1800I. Social CapitalMelanie Conroy, French salons as networks, before and after 1800Mary Helen Dupree, Plappermann’s Wanderjahre: Traveling declamators and knowledge circulation around 1800Joachim Homann, Luftschiff der Phantasie: Johann Christian Reinhart, Friedrich Schiller, and artistic networks circa 1800II. Material CulturesSean Franzel, Serial InventoriesRenata Schellenberg, Cultivating contacts: collectors, critics, and the public in eighteenth-century German-speaking EuropeCrystal Hall, An eighteenth-century New England library in its European, material contextIII. ReadingNacim Ghanbari, First LettersKarin Baumgartner, Mapping the nation: foreign travel in Germany 1738–1839Peter Höyng, A call for a concert of eavesdroppers: Beethoven’s conversation notebooksIV. Expansive NetworksMatt Erlin and Melanie Walsh, Social and conceptual networks in eighteenth-century German periodical literatureBirgit Tautz, K/Cosmopolit* in Enlightenment journals: of networks and translationCrystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Epilog: new networks?ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Crystal Hall is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Bowdoin College where her teaching and research investigates the relationships between non-Anglophone languages and literatures with the technologies of analysis and translation. Birgit Tautz is George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College where her teaching and research investigate the relationships between non-Anglophone languages and literatures with the technologies of analysis and translation.

‘Overall, the book with its gesture of acknowledging openness, fractures, and incongruities, inspires ongoing debate not only about the subject matter of the eighteenth century but about the methodologies for visualization and the complexity of more fluid digital archiving and our ways of working ideally in groups of »constantly self-rearranging contributors« (306).' Karin Wurst, Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch LII

• List of figures and tablesPreface and acknowledgementsEditors’ NoteCrystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Social capital, material cultures, reading: German and European cultural histories between network and narrative around 1800I. Social CapitalMelanie Conroy, French salons as networks, before and after 1800Mary Helen Dupree, Plappermann’s Wanderjahre: Traveling declamators and knowledge circulation around 1800Joachim Homann, Luftschiff der Phantasie: Johann Christian Reinhart, Friedrich Schiller, and artistic networks circa 1800II. Material CulturesSean Franzel, Serial InventoriesRenata Schellenberg, Cultivating contacts: collectors, critics, and the public in eighteenth-century German-speaking EuropeCrystal Hall, An eighteenth-century New England library in its European, material contextIII. ReadingNacim Ghanbari, First LettersKarin Baumgartner, Mapping the nation: foreign travel in Germany 1738–1839Peter Höyng, A call for a concert of eavesdroppers: Beethoven’s conversation notebooksIV. Expansive NetworksMatt Erlin and Melanie Walsh, Social and conceptual networks in eighteenth-century German periodical literatureBirgit Tautz, K/Cosmopolit* in Enlightenment journals: of networks and translationCrystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Epilog: new networks?ContributorsBibliographyIndex