Essays examining aspects of German book history -- in relation to writers, readers, and publishers -- from the 1780s to the 1930s.

Introduction: The Book Trade and "Reading Nation" in the Long Nineteenth Century - Lynne TatlockHow to Think about Luxury Editions in Late Eighteenth- and EarlyNineteenth-Century Germany - Matt ErlinThe Shaping of Garden Culture in the Journal des Luxus und der Moden (1768-1827) - Karin A. WurstDocumenting the Zeitgeist: How the Brockhaus Recorded and Fashioned the World for Germans - Kirsten BelgumThe Afterlife of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction and the German Imaginary: The Illustrated Collected Novels of E. Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, and E. Werner - Lynne TatlockA Library for Girls: Publisher Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn and the Novels of Brigitte Augusti - Jennifer Drake Askey-Do Not UseFor the Love of Words and Works: Tailoring the Reader for Higher Girls' Schools in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany - Jana MikotaThinking Clearly about the Marriage of Heinrich Heine and His Publisher, Julius Campe - Jeffery L. SammonsAt Wit's End: Frank Wedekind and the "Albert Langen Drama" - Mary B. PaddockBildung for Sale: Karl Robert Langewiesche's Blaue Bücher and the Business of "Reading Up" - Katrin VoelknerThe Weimar Literature Industry and the Negotiations of Schloss Gripsholm"It would be delicious, to write books for a new society, but not for the newly rich": Eduard Fuchs between Elite and Mass Culture - Ulrich E. Bach PhD