B01 - Before Eighteenth-Century Studies. Practices and Theories of Literary Publics (1900–1975)
Finished after Phase I.
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Prof. Dr. Georg Stanitzek (Principal Investigator)
The project examines how German literary scholars conducted research on the Enlightenment before the institutional consolidation of eighteenth-century studies. Our work will focus on three major fields of inquiry: 1) Analyzing the unpublished correspondence of scholars such as Richard Alewyn and Arnold Hirsch, we will reconstruct practices of literary publics. 2) We will assemble a corpus of early literary-sociological studies presenting elements of a theory of literary publics “before Habermas.” 3) Interviews with scholars engaged in eighteenth-century studies will highlight the cooperative dynamic at play between critical editions and the public from a historical perspective.
Publications
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Ghanbari, N., Otto, I., Schramm, S., & Thielmann, T. (Eds.). (2018). Kollaboration. Beiträge zur Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink.