Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture

ISSN: 2196-4726

First published: January 15, 2004

Edited by: Michael Butter, Lars Eckstein, Joachim Frenk, Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Thomas Herbst, Barbara Korte, Günter Leypoldt, Christoph Reinfandt, Anatol Stefanowitsch

About this journal

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) is a peer-reviewed journal that traditionally reflects the entire spectrum of English and American language, literature and culture. Particular attention will also be paid to the new literatures in English, the development of linguistic varieties outside Britain and North America, the culture of ethnic minorities and the relationship between anglophone and neighbouring cultural areas. The journal also welcomes contributions which examine theoretical and interdisciplinary issues in literary, linguistic and socio-cultural research. Thus, ZAA invites contributions concerning a wide range of research on current issues, survey articles featuring recent developments in the fields of culture, literature and language, research reports as well as proposals concerning new directions within the discipline. For two of the journal’s four annual issues articles may be submitted in the field of literary and cultural studies; the remaining two issues will be reserved for special topics, one in literature and culture, the other in linguistics.

History

ZAA was founded in 1953. The journal has been published by de Gruyter since 2014.

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Volume 69 Issue 1

March 2021

Frontmatter

March 17, 2021 Page range: i-iv

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Editorial

March 17, 2021 Page range: 1-1

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Articles

How to Read the Literary Market: An Introduction

Dustin Breitenwischer, Philipp Löffler, Johannes Völz March 17, 2021 Page range: 3-8

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How to Read the ‘Literary’ in the Literary Market

Tim Lanzendörfer March 17, 2021 Page range: 9-23

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This essay argues that under contemporary capitalism, all literary production is, at first approximation, commodity production. This has consequences for our understanding of the work of literary studies. We are no longer able to easily recur to preformed theories of the ‘literary’ as a category at least in some way exempt from extrinsic pressures. Attention to the ‘literary market’ remains superficial when it insists on paying attention chiefly to so-called literary fiction on the understanding that it has prima facie higher claims to our attention than popular genre fiction—it does not. In fact, as this essay argues, appreciation of the thorough commodification of art under capitalism asks us to take seriously the need to break with our categories; to insist on the primacy of interpretative attention in determining what kinds of fiction we study.

A Twice-Told Tale? Nathaniel Hawthorne, Genre, Sponsorship

Philipp Löffler March 17, 2021 Page range: 25-42

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This essay analyzes the gradual commercialization of the book market in the antebellum period. It shows that the reality of book publishing in the 1830s and 1840s has little to do with traditional accounts of the antebellum period developed in the wake of or in opposition to F. O. Matthiessen’s American Renaissance . The essay focuses in particular on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ascent into the literary establishment of the 1840s—based mainly on the promotion of his Twice-Told Tales —and on the attempts to advertise Beecher-Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin across socially and politically diverse readerships in the South and the North.

How Useful is Bourdieu’s Notion of Cultural Capital for Describing Literary Markets?

Nicola Glaubitz March 17, 2021 Page range: 43-55

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Bourdieu’s concepts of cultural capital and field, developed in the 1970s and 1980s, still provide systematic reference points for studies interested in literary cultures under market conditions. These concepts have found resonance in studies observing the changing organisation, structure, and social positions involved in the writing, reading, and circulation of literature. While both the conceptual clarity and the historical results Bourdieu achieved (in particular in his study The Rules of Art , originally published in 1992) have come under attack, both his key concepts and his multi-method approach function as a theoretical toolbox for present studies. The article discusses three studies (Childress 2017; English 2005; Guillory 1993) which make use of Bourdieu’s concept of capital in order to describe contemporary US publishing, the role of literary canons in higher education, and the status of literary awards. I argue that Bourdieu’s framework is productive in these cases when it is used in a heuristic way, when the idea of cultural and social capital is considered as processes and practices of valuation, and when it points to the political aspects of economies.

From Product Placement to Boundary Work: Further Steps towards an Integrated Sociology of Literary Communication

Julika Griem March 17, 2021 Page range: 57-76

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This essay aims at integrating conceptions of literary markets, marketing, and marketability into the study of literature. To combine textual and sociological analysis I look at spatial and spatializing strategies on various levels of literary communication: as fictional settings, as authorial placements, as reading situations, and publishing platforms. My contribution draws on Bourdieu’s interest in the economic side of literature as well as on more recent studies by Jim Collins and David Alworth, who have taken closer looks at the ecologies and affiliations linking literature to consumer culture and its affordances of product placement.

Greatness and the Convertibility of Literary Capital: W. D. Howells and Black Writers

Florian Sedlmeier March 17, 2021 Page range: 77-89

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Opening with James Weldon Johnson’s discourse on artistic greatness, I discuss William Dean Howells’s assessment of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles W. Chesnutt through the lens of the convertibility of literary capital, developed with Pierre Bourdieu. From within the racial taxonomy and with white middle-class readers as implied addressees, Howells conceives of both writers as participating in a literary market, a field structured by the tenets of realism. Howells endows Dunbar with universal literary capital and creates a regional affiliation that breaches the color line, before he singles out his poems written in vernacular notation as lasting contributions and asserts the valence of such notation as general poetic practice. On Chesnutt he bestows literary capital by marking and converting two innovations: the genre of the short story and the representation of a world in-between the racial divide. In turn, the convertibility of that world is secured by a comparison of social class habits.

“No more little boxes” – Poetic Positionings in the Literary Field

Stefanie Mueller March 17, 2021 Page range: 91-104

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My article’s title borrows a line from Thomas Sayers Ellis’s poem “Skin, Inc.” (2010), a poem which uses the metaphor of incorporation in terms of its economic and formal affordances: formally as signifying upon a container, a box, in which the poet/lyric persona finds himself trapped as he is trying to create and to write; and economically, as signifying upon the poet as entrepreneur, who has to sell a brand and a product in the literary marketplace. Based on Pierre Bourdieu’s work on the theory of the literary field, I think of the poem as a form of poetic position-taking in the literary field in the Unites States in 2010. In my reading, I explore the literary marketplace as presented in the poem, and I argue that we can use this image of the market to think about the role of race in the literary field in the US, in particular with regard to what has been called the “post-soul aesthetic.”

Books Received

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Volume 69 (2021)

Issue 1 Special Issue: How to Read the Literary Market; Guest Editors: Dustin Breitenwischer, Philipp Löffler and Johannes Völz

Volume 68 (2020)

Volume 67 (2019)

Volume 66 (2018)

Volume 65 (2017)

Volume 64 (2016)

Volume 63 (2015)

Volume 62 (2014)

Volume 61 (2013)

Volume 60 (2012)

Volume 59 (2011)

Volume 58 (2010)

Volume 57 (2009)

Volume 56 (2008)

Volume 55 (2007)

Volume 54 (2006)

Volume 53 (2005)

Volume 52 (2004)

Cite Score	0.4
European Reference Index for the Humanities
SCImago Journal Rank	0.113
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.215

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ZAA invites contributions concerning a wide range of research on current issues in English and American Studies, such as research reports, survey articles featuring recent developments in the field or proposals concerning new directions within the discipline. Two of the journal’s four annual issues are open for individual submissions in the field of literary and cultural studies, the remaining two are reserved for special topics, one in linguistics and one in literary and cultural studies.

Articles, preferably written in English, should not exceed 40,000 characters and be accompanied by an abstract in English of no more than 1,000 characters. All manuscripts have to be submitted in accordance with the ZAA style sheet (see section “Overview” – “Supplementary Information”). The style sheet may also be obtained from the journal’s homepage (www.zaa.uni-tuebingen.de) or requested directly from the editorial office (contact: zaa@uni-tuebingen.de).

Hybrid Open Access

For complete details on hybrid open access publishing at De Gruyter please see: https://www.degruyter.com/page/560

Effective 1st January 2016, authors from an institution affiliated with either the Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU), the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries or some UK libraries participating in the Jisc Collections SMP 　may publish primary research and review articles open access in any of De Gruyter’s OnlineOpen journals at a discount of 90% of the APC price. For more information and to confirm whether your institution is eligible please see the following:

The Netherlands: https://www.degruyter.com/page/1461
The UK: https://www.degruyter.com/page/1462
Switzerland: 　https://www.degruyter.com/page/1463

Editorial

Editorial Board
Michael Butter, University of Tübingen; Lars Eckstein, University of Potsdam; Joachim Frenk, University of Saarbrücken; Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Dresden University of Technology; Thomas Herbst, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; Barbara Korte, University of Freiburg; Günter Leypoldt, University of Heidelberg; Christoph Reinfandt, University of Tübingen; Anatol Stefanowitsch, Free University of Berlin.

Advisory Board
Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK; Winfried Siemerling, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Bernd Engler, University of Tübingen, Germany; T. Vijay Kumar, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India; Caroline Rosenthal, University of Jena, Germany; Daniel S. Malachuk, Western Illinois University, USA; Gill Plain, University of St Andrews, UK; Gerhard Stilz, University of Tübingen, Germany; John Storey, University of Sunderland, UK; Percy Walton, Carlton University, Canada.

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A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture

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