Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age Book

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction / Bibliographic Subjects

“Hypothesis: All is Leaf”    

Books: Past, Present, and Future   

Is Literary History Book History?    

Bibliographic Romanticism    

Romanticizing Books  

One / Networking

Fortresses of the Spirit    

Rethinking the Book of Everything   

The Novel as Network: J.W. Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Travels   

The Problem of the Where   

The Ladies’ Pocket-Book and the Excerpt    

The Ausgabe letzter Hand and a Poetics of the Version    

Cartography and the Novel   

The Anatomy of the Book: The Work of Art as Technological Präparat   

Coda: Faust and the Future  

Two / Copying

Making Classics   

The Combinatory Spirit and the Collected Edition   

Producing Corporeal Integrity (Wieland, Byron, Rousseau)   

Reprinting, Reproducibility, and the Novella Collection   

E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Serapion Brothers and the Crisis of Originality    

“The Uncanny Guest” and the Poetics of the Same   

The Plot of the Returning Husband   

The Magnetic Doppelgänger   

The Whisper, Noise, and the Acoustics of Relocatability   

The Collectivity of theCopy   

Again  

Three / Processing

Printing the Past (Intermediality and the Book I)   

The Editor’s Rise and Fall   

Immaculate Reception: From Erneuung to Critical Edition (Tieck, Hagen, Lachmann)   

Walter Scott, the Ballad, and the Book   

The Borders of Books: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border    

Narrating Editing: The Historical Novel and Tales of My Landlord   

“By Heart” v. “From the Heart” in The Heart of Mid-Lothian   

Producing Singularity  

Four / Sharing

Assorted Books: The Romantic Miscellany (Almanacs, Taschenbücher, Gift-Books)   

Common Right v. Copyright   

Book-Keeping and the Inscription (Intermediality and the Book II)   

Hollow Texts, Textual Hollows   

The Problem of the “Of”: Washington Irving’s “An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron”   

Sharing Sharing: Poe, Hawthorne, and Mrs. Chamberlain’s “Jottings from an Old Journal”  

Five / Overhearing

The Problem of Open Source   

“Le commerce intellectuel”   

Women, Translation, Transnation   

Overheard in Translation: Sophie Mereau’s La Princesse de Clèves and the Loose Confession   

María de Zayas’s Novelas Amorosas y Ejemplares and the Betrayal of Writing   

Boccaccio, Privacy, and Partiality: Fiammetta and Decameron 10.3  

Six / Adapting

Romantic Lines: Illustrated Books (Intermediality and the Book III)   

Afterimages: Goethe and the Lily   

Stems, Spirals, and the New Scientific Graphics    

Overwriting: Balzac between Script and Scribble   

Parallels, or Stendhal and the Line of the Self   

Coda: Sebald’s Bibliographic Vanishing Points  

In Place of an Afterword / Next to the Book

Lection/Selection   

Book Was There, It Was There   

Besides: Towards a Translational Humanism   

Beckett’s “Eff”  

Notes

Index