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New Directions in German Studies Vol. 26 Series Editor: IMKE MEYER Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Editorial Board: KATHERINE ARENS Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin ROSWITHA BURWICK Distinguished Chair of Modern Foreign Languages Emerita, Scripps College RICHARD ELDRIDGE Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE Professor Emerita of Theater Studies, Freie Universit ä t Berlin CATRIONA MACLEOD Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German, University of Pennsylvania STEPHAN SCHINDLER Professor of German and Chair, University of South Florida HEIDI SCHLIPPHACKE Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago ANDREW J. WEBBER Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture, Cambridge University SILKE-MARIA WEINECK Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan i DAVID WELLBERY LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, University of Chicago SABINE WILKE Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization and Professor of German, University of Washington JOHN ZILCOSKY Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto ii Volumes in the series: Vol. 1. Improvisation as Art: Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives by Edgar Landgraf Vol. 2. The German P í caro and Modernity: Between Underdog and Shape-Shifter by Bernhard Malkmus Vol. 3. Citation and Precedent: Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature by Thomas O. Beebee Vol. 4. Beyond Discontent: ‘Sublimation’ from Goethe to Lacan by Eckart Goebel Vol. 5. From Kafka to Sebald: Modernism and Narrative Form edited by Sabine Wilke Vol. 6. 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Mininger and Jason Michael Peck Vol. 17. Figures of Natality: Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe by Joseph D. O’Neil Vol. 18. Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond edited by Sabine Wilke and Japhet Johnstone Vol. 19. Building Socialism: Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955–1973 by Curtis Swope Vol. 20. Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History by Richard T. Gray Vol. 21. Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose: Five Psycho-Sociological Readings by Marie Kolkenbrock Vol. 22. Sissi’s World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth edited by Maura E. Hametz and Heidi Schlipphacke Vol. 23. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after Kant edited by Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, and Leif Weatherby Vol. 24. Staging West German Democracy: Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953–1963 by Jan Uelzmann Vol. 25. The Lever as Instrument of Reason: Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800 by Jocelyn Holland Vol. 26. The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print by Petra S. McGillen iv The Fontane Workshop Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print Petra S. McGillen v BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in the United States of America 2019 Copyright © Petra S. McGillen, 2019 For legal purposes the Acknowledgments on pp. xvi–xvii constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design: Andrea F. Bucsi Cover image: Theodor Fontane at his desk. Courtesy Theodor-Fontane-Archiv, Potsdam, Germany. All rights reserved. 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Description: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. | Series: New directions in German studies ; vol. 26 | Extensive and substantial revision of author's thesis (doctoral—Princeton University, 2012, titled Original compiler : notation as textual practice in Theodor Fontane. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: LCCN 2019008431 (print) | LCCN 2019016631 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501351563 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781501351570 (ePub) | ISBN 9781501351587 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Fontane, Theodor, 1819–1898—Criticism and interpretation. | German literature—19th century—History and criticism. | Realism in literature. | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Classifi cation: LCC PT1863.Z7 (ebook) | LCC PT1863.Z7 M34 2019 (print) | DDC 838/.709—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019008431 ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-5158-7 ePDF: 978-1-5013-5156-3 eBook: 978-1-5013-5157-0 Series: New Directions in German Studies Typeset by Refi neCatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk, UK To fi nd out more about our authors and books, visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our n ewsletters . vi To Michael and Henry vii viii Contents List of Illustrations x Permissions xii Note on Translations and Transcriptions xiv List of Abbreviations for Recurring Fontane Citations xv Acknowledgments xvi Introduction: Remediating Copy and Paste 1 1 Media-Historical Coordinates: Literature in the Industrial Age of Print 33 2 Biography vs. Autobiography: The Making of a Compiler 71 3 A Living Archive: Generating Input 121 4 The Manufacture of Literature: Generating Output 183 Coda: The “Uncreative” Writing of M athilde M ö hring 257 Bibliography 277 Index 297 ix
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