Periodical Studies Today: Multidisciplinary Analyses

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this volume offers a wide-ranging survey of periodical research today. It illustrates the shift from content-related investigations and archival recovery to multidisciplinary analyses which consider, for instance, how magazines, newspapers, and other serial print products shape our opinions and help us to form like-minded communities. International specialists explore periodicals as relational artefacts, highlighting editorial constellations, material conditions, translation, design, marketing, and the consumption of newspapers and magazines from the late seventeenth to the twenty-first century. A must-read for academic and interested readers who wish to explore new and relevant ways to analyze periodicals.

Jutta Ernst is Professor of North American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Among her more recent publications are Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim (2020, co-edited with Brigitte Johanna Glaser) and Amerikanische Modernismen: Schreibweisen, Konzepte und zeitgenössische Periodika als Vermittlungsinstanzen (2018).

Dagmar von Hoff is Professor of German Literature and Chair of German Media Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Major recent publications include a critical edition of Frank Wedekind's Frühlings Erwachen: Eine Kindertragödie, (ed., 2020).

Oliver Scheiding is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His new book Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Culture is planned for 2023.