Edited Volume “Formats and Institutions of American Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century”
updated:
Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 7:55am
Alexander Starre (FU Berlin) & Philipp Loeffler (U Heidelberg)
deadline for submissions:
Friday, October 31, 2025
“Formats and Institutions of American Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century” Editors: Philipp Löffler (Universität Heidelberg) and Alexander Starre (Freie Universität Berlin) Deadline for Abstracts: October 31, 2025 This edited collection addresses alternative modes of writing nineteenth-century literary history, spanning the evolution of the literary field from a narrow patronage system in the 1810s and 1820s to a broad and expanding commercial literary market around 1900. The framing of the volume cuts across traditional period distinctions, from the early Republic to turn-of-the-twentieth-century naturalism, as well as canonized literary movements.