Conference Announcement:
The Tradition of the German Bestseller (1848–1910)
Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
17-18 April 2009
Supported by the Tiarks Fund, Department of German, University of Cambridge
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the conference “The
Tradition of the German Bestseller (1848-1910)” to be held at Jesus College,
Cambridge, UK, from the 17-18 April 2009. Please find below the Conference
Programme and details of how to register for the event.
Should you have any further queries, please contact:
Benedict Schofield [log in to unmask]
Charlotte Woodford [log in to unmask]
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Conference Programme:
Friday 17 April
2pm: Registration and Coffee
Session 1:
2.30pm: Michael Minden (Cambridge): ‘Introduction: The Tradition of the Bestseller’
followed by a brief discussion.
3pm: Todd Kontje (University of California, San Diego), ‘History as Melodrama in
Felix Dahn’s Ein Kampf um Rom’
4pm–4.30pm: Tea
Session 2: 4.30-6.30 pm:
- Elizabeth Boa, ‘Taking Sex to Market: Josefine Mutzenbacher, Lebensgeschichte
einer Wiener Dirne and Margarete Böhme, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen’
- Nicholas Saul (Durham), ‘Wilhelm Jensen: Literary Value, Evolutionary Aesthetics,
and Competition in the Marketplace’
- Peter Pfeiffer (Georgetown), ‘Balduin Möllhausen’s Travel Writing and Popular
Novels’
6.45 pm: Drinks
7.30pm: Conference Dinner
Saturday 18 April:
Session 3: 9am:
- Anita Bunyan (Cambridge), ‘The Battle for Readers: Political and Religious
Contexts of the Nineteenth-Century Bestseller’
- Barbara Burns (Glasgow), ‘Morality, Gender and Politics in the Historical Fiction of
Louise von François’
- Caroline Bland (Sheffield), ‘Clara Viebig between Heimatkunst and
Grossstadtroman’
10.45-11.15 am Coffee
Session 4: 11.15:
- Martin Swales, ‘Heimatliteratur for Children: The Case of Stifter’s Bergkristall’
- Christiane Arndt (Queen’s University, Canada), ‘“Einen tüchtigen Kerl zum
Nachtgespenst machen”: Schauerrealismus in Der Schimmelreiter’
12.30 pm: Lunch
Session 5: 2 pm:
- Katrin Kohl (Oxford), ‘E. Marlitt [Eugenie John] and the Poetics of Popular
Romantic Fiction in the Age of German Realism’
- Charlotte Woodford (Cambridge), ‘“Alles Asche. Und doch gebunden”: The
sentimental double bind in Irrungen Wirrungen’
- Ernest Schonfield, ‘Buddenbrooks as Bestseller’
3.45–4.15 pm: Tea
Session 6: 4.15–5.45pm
- Christine Achinger (Warwick), ‘Realism, Antisemitism and Reconciled Modernity
in Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben’
- Benedict Schofield (King’s College London), ‘Politics, Aesthetics and the Literary
Market: Conflicting Tendencies in Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben’
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Further details:
Conference Fees:
- £40 Conference Fee for the two days (including lunch on the Saturday)
- £30 for the Conference Dinner on Friday night
- A limited number of rooms are available at Jesus College for an overnight stay on the Friday night priced at £59.50. Could those wishing to stay at Jesus College please register an interest as soon as possible to secure accommodation.
To register for the conference or for further information please contact:
Benedict Schofield [log in to unmask]
Charlotte Woodford [log in to unmask]
Closing date for registration: 23 March
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