What Literature Knows

Antje Kley is professor of American Literary Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her research interests focus on aesthetic forms and cultural functions of narrative, both autobiographical and fictional, in changing media environments between the eighteenth century and the present.Kai Merten is professor of British Literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His research focuses on contemporary poetry in English, Romantic culture in Britain as well as on questions of mediality in British literature and Postcolonial Studies. He is also the founder of the Erfurt Network on New Materialism.

• Gendered Knowledge – Natural Knowledge and Self-Awareness – Poetic vs. Encyclopaedic Knowledge – Crisis of Knowledge – Romanticism and Anoetic Knowledge – Literary and Medical Configurations of Knowledge – Fourth Dimension and Impossible Knowledge – Mass Literature and Knowledge – Scientific Knowledge and the Display Function of Literature – The Art of Deception: Knowledge Distribution – Knowledge and Successiveness – Knowledge Regimes, Power, and Wellbeing – Historiography and the Production of Knowledge