German and European Cultural Histories, 1760 - 1830

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.

List of figures and tables

Preface and acknowledgements

Editors’ Note

Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Social capital, material cultures, reading: German and European cultural histories between network and narrative around 1800

I. Social Capital

Melanie Conroy, French salons as networks, before and after 1800

Mary Helen Dupree, Plappermann’s Wanderjahre: Traveling declamators and knowledge circulation around 1800

Joachim Homann, Luftschiff der Phantasie: Johann Christian Reinhart, Friedrich Schiller, and artistic networks circa 1800

II. Material Cultures

Sean Franzel, Serial Inventories

Renata Schellenberg, Cultivating contacts: collectors, critics, and the public in eighteenth-century German-speaking Europe

Crystal Hall, An eighteenth-century New England library in its European, material context

III. Reading

Nacim Ghanbari, First Letters

Karin Baumgartner, Mapping the nation: foreign travel in Germany 1738–1839

Peter Höyng, A call for a concert of eavesdroppers: Beethoven’s conversation notebooks

IV. Expansive Networks

Matt Erlin and Melanie Walsh, Social and conceptual networks in eighteenth-century German periodical literature

Birgit Tautz, K/Cosmopolit* in Enlightenment journals: of networks and translation

Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Epilog: new networks?

Contributors

Bibliography

Index