Pub Date : 2019-11-08DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341444
Carlos Spoerhase
This paper explores Klopstock’s presentation copies of his drama Hermanns Schlacht in the context of his efforts to gain favor with the imperial court in Vienna. It focuses in particular on Klopstock’s attention to the materiality of the presentation copies and his strategies to adjust to court protocol. In this vein, the essay highlights his dissatisfaction with the quality of German books in general, which he felt undermined his efforts to establish himself with his patrons. At the same time, Klopstock seized on the book’s materiality as an opening to reframe the relationship of author to patron. He envisioned a new kind of relationship, which would be more reciprocal. By trying to redefine the author’s position at court, Klopstock aimed to elevate the authorial role more generally. Klopstock’s leveraging of the material book to elevate the author was part of a wider eighteenth-century debate concerning the status of authors in their relation to patrons. Klopstock aimed not only to redefine this relationship as one of equals but also to commit the emperor to provide recognition and financial support for German writers, thus securing the stature of German letters. In this context, Klopstock’s binding choices are shown to be bold moves through which he tried to break the cultural conventions attached to the medium of the presentation copy. Klopstock’s own designs of his presentation copies to the imperial court have to be seen as—ultimately failed—attempts to recalibrate cultural power structures.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-07DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341440
Jana Klingenberg
This paper investigates the history of the De Burger-Leeskring and the impact it had on Afrikaans literature and cultural development. It places the development of Nasionale Pers and the Afrikaans language within the context of South Africa’s history and the development of language, politics and culture, as well as considering book clubs or readers’ circles and their purpose within this context. This paper uses Bourdieu’s classification of different kinds of capital—specifically cultural capital and financial capital—to evaluate the success of this Leeskring [Reader’s Circle]. It was found that although not financially successful, the Leeskring’s influence on Afrikaans literature was vast.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-07DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341436
M. Mathijsen
Until the middle of the nineteenth century no scholarly edition had been published of the complete works of the most renowned poet and playwright of the Dutch Golden Age: Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). Jacob van Lennep, one of the most renowned authors of the nineteenth century, took it upon himself to edit such a publication, augmented with especially-made illustrations, a biography and explanatory notes. It was published in twelve volumes by Hijman Binger in Amsterdam between 1850 and 1869. The project took much longer than Van Lennep could foresee, because there were many widespread works and editions of Vondel’s writings that had never been studied before. Although there were quite a few subscriptions, the project did not do well financially. In 1862 Van Lennep founded a ‘Society for the Continued Edition and Exploitation of the Works of J. van Vondel’, with shares of a thousand florins each. After completion of the de luxe edition Binger and Van Lennep would also publish a trade edition, but another publisher beat them to it. He was charged with plagiarism, but Binger and Van Lennep lost the lawsuit as the copyright laws of the time were not in their favour. When Van Lennep died in August 1868, he had just completed the last volume.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-07DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341438
W. Schmitz
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Pub Date : 2019-08-07DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341437
F. Janssen
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Pub Date : 2019-08-07DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341434
R. V. Vliet
The microhistory of the Amsterdam-based Sebastiaan Petzold († 1704) demonstrates that in the Early Modern Period booksellers without a network were hardly able to manage professionally in the Republic of Letters. Petzold relied especially on patronage from Socinianist circles. The Socinian theologian Samuel Crellius (1660-1747) saw to it that Petzold was able to publish three highly controversial Socinian works, including the notorious Platonisme devoilé (1700). Petzold was also introduced to some prominent English booksellers thanks to Crell, which provided him with access to the international market. Another patron was the Berlin court preacher Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660-1741), who recommended Petzold to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In Amsterdam the literary society ‘In Magnis Voluisse Sat Est’ commissioned Petzold to publish the complete works of Lucretius, an Epicurean work which was a favourite in anti-clerical circles. In spite of this support, in the end Petzold was besieged by creditors, instead of authors thronging at his door.
阿姆斯特丹的Sebastiaan Petzold(†1704)的微观历史表明，在近代早期，没有网络的书商很难在文学共和国进行专业管理。佩佐德尤其依赖社会主义圈子的赞助。社会主义神学家塞缪尔·克雷留斯(Samuel Crellius, 1660-1747)确保佩策尔德能够出版三本极具争议的社会主义著作，包括臭名昭著的柏拉图主义著作(1700)。由于克雷尔，佩佐德还被介绍给一些著名的英国书商，这为他进入国际市场提供了途径。另一位赞助人是柏林宫廷传教士丹尼尔·恩斯特·雅布隆斯基(Daniel Ernst Jablonski, 1660-1741)，他把佩佐德推荐给戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨。在阿姆斯特丹，文学协会“In Magnis Voluisse Sat Est”委托佩佐德出版卢克莱修全集，这是一部伊壁鸠鲁派作品，在反教权派圈子里很受欢迎。尽管有这样的支持，佩佐德最终还是被债权人包围，而不是蜂拥到他家门口的作家。
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Pub Date : 2019-08-07DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341439
J. J. Witkam
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Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341435
E. Steinová
Manuscript fragment Chicago, Newberry Library, Masi Fragm. 14 was previously misidentified as containing an unknown sermon or biblical excerpts. It is, in fact, a remnant of large-format deluxe Bible containing a set of Spanish prefaces to the Pauline epistles. These prefaces identify the deluxe codex as a descendant of a Theodulf Bible, a scholarly revision of the biblical text produced in the first decades of the ninth century by Theodulf of Orleans. Only seven copies of the Theodulf Bible are known. It is thus relevant that the Newberry fragment may have been dependent on another, previously unknown copy that was kept in one of the large monasteries of northwestern France, from which the fragment most probably comes. Because of its provenance from Haspres, the deluxe manuscript may have been produced in the nearby abbey of St. Vaast in Arras or perhaps by the community of the abbey of Jumièges.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-26DOI: 10.1163/15700690-12341428
F. Janssen, Nynke Leistra
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