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CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Temporalization and Seriality
- Writing Time
- The Timeliness and Untimeliness of Serial Forms
- Elements of Serial Print
- Tableaux mouvants, Miscellanies of Time, and Zeitgeschichten
- Part I Tableaux mouvants
- 1. Bertuch’s Modejournal
- More than “Merely a Fleeting Page”?
- “Interesting” and “Frightening” Tableaus
- “Drawings of Every New Fashion and Invention”
- Small Print Luxury
- An “Archive of the Fashions of Body and Mind”
- 2. Goethe’s The Roman Carnival and Its Afterlives
- A First View of The Roman Carnival
- Second (and Third) Views of Carnival
- After Goethe’s Carnival
- 3. Caricature and Ephemeral Print in London und Paris
- Canalizing the Flow
- “Friends of the Art of Uglifying”
- Les Cris de Paris
- “Ephemeral Favorites”
- Linen Monuments
- The Monument as Caricature and as Ephemeral Event
- Part II Miscellanies of Time
- 4. Jean Paul’s Paper Festivals
- Figures of Time
- Preaching at Twilight
- Writing the Present, Writing the Future
- Paper Monuments, Paper Festivals
- Ends and Beginnings
- 5. Jean Paul’s Incomplete Works
- Before and after Death
- Opera Omnia
- The Papierdrache
- Jean Paul’s Literary Afterlives
- Part III Contemporary Histories (Zeitgeschichten)
- 6. Waiting for the Revolution (Ludwig Börne)
- Diaries of the Times
- Letters from Paris
- “Adieu until the Next Revolution”
- The History of the Coming Revolution
- 7. Heine’s Serial Histories of the Revolution
- Various Conceptions of History
- Interrupting the History of the Revolution
- Heine’s Anti-Portraiture
- Rhetoric after the Revolution
- After 1848
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index