Literary Publics in the German-speaking Eighteenth Century: Medial Practices of Patronage and Friendship (B01+)

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The subproject examines how German literary scholars conducted research on the Enlightenment before the institutional consolidation of eighteenth-century studies. Our work will focus on three major fields of inquiry: 1) Analyzing the unpublished correspondence of scholars such as Richard Alewyn and Arnold Hirsch, we will reconstruct practices of literary publics. 2) We will assemble a corpus of early literary-sociological studies presenting elements of a theory of literary publics 'before Habermas'. 3) Interviews with scholars engaged in eighteenth-century studies will highlight the cooperative dynamics at play between critical editions and the public from a historical perspective.