The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities

335 Pages·2020·3.062 MB·English

by  Tim Lanzendörfer, Corinna Norrick-Rühl

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BOOK HISTORY
The Novel as Network
Forms, Ideas, Commodities
Edited by
Tim Lanzendörfer · Corinna Norrick-Rühl
New Directions in Book History
Series Editors
Shafquat Towheed
Faculty of Arts
Open University
Milton Keynes, UK
Jonathan Rose
Department of History
Drew University
Madison, NJ, USA
As a vital field of scholarship, book history has now reached a stage of
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studies of script, print, and post-print cultures. New Directions in Book
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experiment with inventive methodologies, explore unexplored archives,
debate overlooked issues, challenge prevailing theories, study neglected
subjects,anddemonstratetherelevanceofbookhistorytootheracademic
fields. Every title in this series will address the evolution of the historiog-
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Editorial Board
Marcia Abreu, University of Campinas, Brazil
Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University, USA
Matt Cohen, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Archie Dick, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Martyn Lyons, University of New South Wales, Australia
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Tim Lanzendörfer Corinna Norrick-Rühl
Editors
The Novel as Network
Forms, Ideas, Commodities
Editors
Tim Lanzendörfer Corinna Norrick-Rühl
Goethe University University of Muenster
Frankfurt, Germany Muenster, Germany
New Directions in Book History
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To Anton (Lanzendörfer) and Anton (Rühl)
Preface and Acknowledgments
This volume is the result of an interdisciplinary conference held at
Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, in September 2016,
but it is not a traditional conference volume. Neither when we first
conceived it, nor in the course of its development, nor even in its actual
happening,didweimaginetheconferenceNovel-Seeming-Goods topursue
the idea of the novel as network, of the novel network. We believed that
it would be useful to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines
and perspective on the novel, in order to discuss the futures of the novel.
In the unfolding of the conference, we realized the many points at which
the papers presented touched, and found ourselves relieved that the two-
day event did not fizzle out, with scholars of publishing practice having
nothingtosaytoliteraryscholarseagertoreadbooks,andneitherhaving
any comment for scholars of television. For a while, we rested content
that the conference had been a success. But we soon felt that whatever
hadbeendevelopedattheconferencerequiredtheoreticalgrounding,and
soon came to believe that the idea of the network—which seemed illus-
trative of the connections, many shared points in the papers and across
thepapers—wouldbemostamenabletoourpurposes.Thisvolumeisthe
result,then,ofscholarshipthewaywebelieveitshouldbedone:building
on the presentations of first-class research, amplified by the outstanding
discussionsourpresentersprovided,reflecteduponandthenpresentedin
a coherent form for discussion. We rather hope that you will agree.
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viii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Wearedeeplyindebtedto,andwouldliketothank,theparticipantsat
thisconference,boththespeakersandtheguests,formakingitasuccess.
Wewouldliketoacknowledgeagainthesponsorshipofthisconferenceby
the internal research funding (Förderstufe 1) of Mainz University, by the
ForschungsschwerpunktMedienkonvergenz,theGermanResearchFoun-
dation (DFG), and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading,
andPublishing(SHARP).Withouttheirgenerouscontributions,noneof
this could have happened.
We remain indebted to our research assistants, Scarlett Saurat and
Isabell Thomas, for their tireless work in preparing the conference and
supportingusthroughout.Wearealsohappytoacknowledgetheadmin-
istrative assistants to our respective departments, Anette Vollrath and
Renate Geyer. Without their support, the conference would not have
taken place, and certainly nobody would have been paid, fed, or housed.
We would also like to thank the people who made this book a reality:
the series editors of the New Directions in Book History series, Shafquat
Towheed and Jonathan Rose, as well as our editors at Palgrave, Allie
Troyanos and Rachel Jacobe. Obviously, this book could not have been
finished without the tenacity and patience of our contributors, whom we
are grateful to for their grit! We also would like to thank Lukas Lieneke,
whoassistedwiththepreparationofthefinalmanuscript,andEllenBarth
for comments and input in the final editing stages.
Each of us has also incurred individual debts in the context of that
conference and this volume. Tim wants to thank his wife, Anselma, and
son, Anton, for doing without him in the United States for the five days
the conference took him back to Germany in the middle of a lectureship
at the University of California, Davis, and subsequently their patience,
and that of his daughter, Marlene, in the preparation of the manuscript,
quiteafewyearslater.Hewouldalsoliketoacknowledgethekindnessof
the English Department at UC Davis in permitting his absence from the
firstdayofclassesthere.Corinnawouldliketothankherfamily,especially
Timo Rühl and Petra Norrick, for their unwavering support, and Anton
and Charlotte for distraction from academic activities.
Frankfurt, Germany Tim Lanzendörfer
Münster, Germany Corinna Norrick-Rühl
Contents
1 Introduction: The Novel as Network 1
Tim Lanzendörfer and Corinna Norrick-Rühl
2 Introduction: Novel Forms 23
Tim Lanzendörfer
3 The Novel’s Novelty Now 29
Mathias Nilges
4 The Cosmopolitan Value of the Multicultural Novel 51
Kristian Shaw
5 The Novel Network and the Work of Genre 69
Tim Lanzendörfer
6 Can a Novel Contain a Comic? Graphic Nerd Ecology
in Contemporary US Fiction 87
Christopher Pizzino
7 Introduction: Novel Ideas 111
Tim Lanzendörfer and Corinna Norrick-Rühl
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x CONTENTS
8 Speculative Nostalgia and Media of the New
Intersectional Left: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 119
Stephen Shapiro
9 From Comic to Graphic and from Book to Novel:
Sandman’s Invisible Authors and the Quest
for Literariness 137
Julia Round
10 Listening to the Literary: On the Novelistic Poetics
of the Podcast 163
Patrick Gill
11 The Video Game Novel: StoryWorld Narratives,
Novelization, and the Contemporary Novel-Network 181
Tamer Thabet and Tim Lanzendörfer
12 Introduction: Novel Commodities 203
Corinna Norrick-Rühl
13 LocatingtheGoods inContemporaryLiteraryCulture:
Between the Book and the Archive 211
Jim Collins
14 Auratic Facsimile: The Print Novel in the Age
of Digital Reproduction 229
Julia Panko
15 Sensing the Novel/Seeing the Book/Selling
the Goods 251
Claire Squires
16 Shakespeare Novelized: Hogarth, Symbolic Capital,
and the Literary Market 271
Jeremy Rosen