Publishing Culture and the "Reading Nation"

LYNNE TATLOCK is the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. JEFFREY L. SAMMONS is Professor Emeritus, Yale University KARIN A. WURST is Professor of German at Michigan State University. LYNNE TATLOCK is the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Introduction: The Book Trade and "Reading Nation" in the Long Nineteenth Century - Lynne TatlockHow to Think about Luxury Editions in Late Eighteenth- and EarlyNineteenth-Century Germany - Matt ErlinThe Shaping of Garden Culture in the Journal des Luxus und der Moden (1768-1827) - Karin A. WurstDocumenting the Zeitgeist: How the Brockhaus Recorded and Fashioned the World for Germans - Kirsten BelgumThe Afterlife of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction and the German Imaginary: The Illustrated Collected Novels of E. Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, and E. Werner - Lynne TatlockA Library for Girls: Publisher Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn and the Novels of Brigitte Augusti - Jennifer Drake Askey-Do Not UseFor the Love of Words and Works: Tailoring the Reader for Higher Girls' Schools in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany - Jana MikotaThinking Clearly about the Marriage of Heinrich Heine and His Publisher, Julius Campe - Jeffery L. SammonsAt Wit's End: Frank Wedekind and the "Albert Langen Drama" - Mary B. PaddockBildung for Sale: Karl Robert Langewiesche's Blaue Bücher and the Business of "Reading Up" - Katrin VoelknerThe Weimar Literature Industry and the Negotiations of Schloss Gripsholm - "It would be delicious, to write books for a new society, but not for the newly rich": Eduard Fuchs between Elite and Mass Culture - Ulrich E. Bach PhD

I]nstructive and salutary in the way it takes us . . . beyond our usual preoccupations with individual authors and their text-writing and invites us to consider aspects of the publishing context . . . . [I]nformative, memorable, and in many aspects enlightening.