The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities

by Tim Lanzendïrfer (Editor), Corinna Norrick-Rïhl (Editor)

Overview

The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities engages with the contemporary Anglophone novel and its derivatives and by-products such as graphic novels, comics, podcasts, and Quality TV. This collection investigates the meaning of the novel in the larger system of contemporary media production and (post-)print culture, viewing the novel through the lens of actor network theory as a node in the novel network. Chapters underscore the deep interconnection between all the aspects of the novel, between the novel as a (literary) form, as an idea, and as a commodity. Bringing together experts from American, British, and Postcolonial Studies, as well as Book, Publishing, and Media Studies, this collection offers a new vantage point to view the novel in its multifaceted expressions today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030534097
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/23/2020
Series:	New Directions in Book History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	605 KB

About the Author

Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Research Fellow for Literary Theory, Literary Studies, and the Communication of Literary Studies at Goethe University, Germany. He is the author most recently of Books of the Dead: Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature (2018).

Corinna Norrick-Rühl is Chair of Book Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. Her most recent publications are Book Clubs and Book Commerce (2019) and Internationaler Buchmarkt (2019).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Novel as Network, Tim Lanzendörfer and Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 2: Introduction: Novel Forms, Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 3: The Novel’s Novelty Now, Mathias Nilges.- Chapter 4: The Cosmopolitan Value of the Multicultural Novel, Kristian Shaw.- Chapter 5: The Novel Network and the Work of Genre, Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 6: Can a Novel Contain a Comic? Graphic Nerd Ecology in Contemporary US Fiction, Christopher Pizzino.- Chapter 7: Introduction: Novel Ideas, Tim Lanzendörfer and Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 8: Speculative Nostalgia and Media of the New Intersectional Left: My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Stephen Shapiro.- Chapter 9: From Comic to Graphic and from Book to Novel: Sandman’s Invisible Authors and the Quest for Literariness, Julia Round.- Chapter 10: Listening to the Literary: On the Novelistic Poetics of the Podcast, Patrick Gill.- Chapter 11: The Video Game Novel: Story-World Narratives, Novelization, and the Contemporary Novel’s Network, Tamer Thabet and Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 12: Introduction: Novel Commodities, Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 13: Locating the Goods in Contemporary Literary Culture: Between the Book and the Archive, Jim Collins.- Chapter 14: Auratic Facsimile: The Print Novel in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Julia Panko.- Chapter 15: Sensing the Novel/Seeing the Book/Selling the Goods, Claire Squires.- Chapter 16: Shakespeare Novelized: Hogarth, Symbolic Capital, and the Literary Market, Jeremy Rosen.- Chapter 17: Reading the Small American Novel: The Aesthetic Agency of the Short Book in the Modern Literary Marketplace, Alexander Starre.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Offering a novel, and networked, approach to the ‘novel network,’ this is a timely and important intervention responding to an urgent need for re-orientation in studying the novel. The truly interdisciplinary collection is keenly alert to the various contexts of the novel on today’s multimedial cultural marketplace, helping us revise our understanding of what, and how, the novel ‘is’.” (Florian Klaeger, Professor of English Literature, University of Bayreuth, Germany, and author of Reading into the Stars. Cosmopoetics in the Contemporary Novel (2018))

“Novel as Network is an astute and coherent series of essays on the forms, functions, and fortunes of the novel in the late age of print. With a productive use of network theory that brings together fresh perspectives from literary studies and book history, this collection shows how the contemporary novel is placed in varieties of markets, media, taste formations, and genres.” (Günter Leypoldt, Professor of American Literature, University of Heidelberg, Germany)