Serial Circulation: The German-American Mystery Novel and the Beginnings of Transatlantic Modernity (1850-1855)

连载：德美悬疑小说与跨大西洋现代性的开端（1850-1855）

• 批准号: 455697597
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Daniel Stein
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Anglistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/455697597?language=en
• 关键词: Serial; Circulation; German; American; Mystery

This project examines the German-language mystery novels by August Gläser, Heinrich Börnstein, Emil Klauprecht, Rudolph Lexow, and Ludwig von Reizenstein, which were first serialized in newspapers and later published as books in the USA between 1850 and 1855. It locates these novels within the international “mysterymania” that followed the sensational success of Eugène Sue’s feuilleton novel Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), which led to English-language bestsellers in the USA such as George Lippard’s The Quaker City; or the Monks of Monk Hall (1844-45) and George Thompson’s City Crimes; or, Life in New York and Boston (1849), as well as to German-language adaptations such as Die Geheimnisse von St. Louis (Börnstein, 1854-55) and Die Geheimnisse von New Orleans (von Reizenstein, 1854-55). The project conducts the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of these German-language mystery novels as representatives of a popular serial literature that emerged in the USA around the middle of the 19th century. This literature was locally situated, transregionally connected, and transnationally oriented, and it encouraged rapidly growing and increasingly heterogeneous German-language readerships in and beyond specific regions of the USA (Northeast, Midwest, South) to imagine themselves as part of a politically significant community of German-Americans. The project understands this nexus of serial circulation, immigration literature, and popular culture as an expression of a transatlantic modernity that emerged in the mid-19th century and to whose development the mystery novels made a hitherto underestimated contribution.The project investigates the literary and cultural significance of these mystery novels through a comparative analysis of the texts, their paratexts, and their publication contexts. Based on findings from Nineteenth-Century Studies and German American Studies and in conjunction with approaches from Book History and Periodical Studies, it develops the concept of serial circulation, differentiated into forms of narrative, periodical, and cultural circulation. It overcomes an earlier filiopietist interest in the German heritage in the USA and expands established literary approaches to discern popular serial transatlantic encounters and new forms of cultural mobility between Germany and the USA around 1850.

这个项目研究了奥古斯特·格拉泽、海因里希·伯恩斯坦、埃米尔·克劳普雷希特、鲁道夫·莱克索和路德维希·冯·赖森斯坦的德语推理小说，这些小说最初在报纸上连载，后来在1850年至1855年之间在美国出版。它将这些小说定位于继欧仁·苏的《巴黎的神秘》（1842-43）之后的国际“神秘狂热”，这部小说在美国获得了轰动性的成功，导致了英语畅销书，如乔治·利帕德的《贵格会城市》;或《僧侣霍尔的僧侣》（1844-45）和乔治·汤普森的《城市犯罪》;或者，生活在纽约和波士顿（1849年），以及德语改编，如模具Geheimnisse冯圣路易斯（伯恩施泰因，1854年至1855年）和模具Geheimnisse冯新奥尔良（冯Reizenstein，1854年至1855年）。该项目对这些德语神秘小说进行了第一次全面和系统的分析，这些神秘小说是世纪中期出现在美国的流行系列文学的代表。这些文学作品是本地的、跨地区的、面向跨国的，它鼓励美国特定地区（东北部、中西部、南部）内外迅速增长的、日益多样化的德语读者把自己想象成一个具有政治意义的德裔美国人社区的一部分。该项目将系列发行、移民文学和流行文化的这种联系理解为世纪中期出现的跨大西洋现代性的一种表达，而神秘小说对这种现代性的发展做出了迄今为止被低估的贡献。该项目通过对文本、副文本和出版环境的比较分析，探讨这些神秘小说的文学和文化意义。基于19世纪研究和德裔美国人研究的发现，并结合图书史和期刊研究的方法，它发展了连续流通的概念，分为叙事，期刊和文化流通的形式。它克服了较早的filiopitist在美国的德国遗产的兴趣，并扩大了既定的文学方法，以辨别流行的系列跨大西洋的遭遇和新形式的文化流动之间的德国和美国1850年左右。