Periodical Studies Today

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.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesNote on ContributorsIntroduction: Periodical Studies as a Transepistemic FieldJutta Ernst and Oliver Scheidingi: Seriality and OrderSeriality and OrderOliver Scheiding1 The Object of Periodical StudiesGustav Frank and Madleen Podewski2 Reading Illustrated Magazines with Wittgenstein: Methodological Approaches to the Visual Seriality of Illustrated Magazines (1880–1910)Vincent Fröhlichii: MaterialityMaterialityOliver Scheiding3 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 Kaminski4 Die Illustration als parole condensée für geistig Arme? Explizite und implizite Selbstreflexion im Magasin Pittoresque (1833)Andreas Beck5 Millions of Old Newspapers: Back Number Budd and the Materiality of the PeriodicalEllen Gruber Garveyiii: MultimodalityMultimodalityOliver Scheiding6 The Semiotic Work Design Can Do: A Multimodal Approach to Visual StorytellingHans-Martin Rall and Wibke Weber7 Magazines, Affects, and AtmosphereSabina Fazli8 Indie Magazines and the Metafunction of Visual IdentityAbby Hohenstattiv: TranslationTranslationJutta Ernst9 Translation and Periodical Studies: The Pionier’s Rewriting of Frank Norris’s The OctopusFlorian Freitag10 Transnationale Avantgarde-Zeitschriften als Verhandlungsforen europäischer Kunst, Gesellschaft und Politik: Contimporanul und IntegralIulia-Karin Patrutv: Infrastructure and AgencyInfrastructure and AgencyOliver Scheiding11 Die Zeitung als Akteur: Theoretische, heuristische und methodische Zugänge in der modernen MediengeschichteMaximilian Kutzner12 Under the Cover of Religious Periodicals: Magazine Agency and Newsroom PracticeOliver Scheiding and Anja-Maria Bassimirvi: CommunityCommunityJutta Ernst13 Metropolitan Communities: Periodicity and Participation in Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing and Penny Fiction WeekliesAnne-Julia Zwierlein14 Romanticism’s Little Magazines: The Nineteenth-Century Avant-Garde and Collective Position-Taking in The DialClemens Spahrvii: Location and TransferLocation and TransferJutta Ernst15 Reenvisioning the Canon: Three Early American Printers and Their Transnational RoutesMark J. Noonan16 The Periodical Press in the Upper Rhine (1780–1810): Cultural Transfers and Cross-Border FiguresAnaïs Nagel17 Transcultural Careers in the Periodical Press: Fleury Mesplet and Paul-Marc Sauvalle as Transatlantic MediatorsHans-Jürgen LüsebrinkIndex