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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PHILIPP LÖFFLER: Introduction: The Practice of Reading and the Need for Literary Value; I PERIODIZATION, PRESTIGE, GENRE; CLEMENS SPAHR: Literary History and the Problem of Periodization; GÜNTER LEYPOLDT: Singularity and the Literary Market; MICHAEL BASSELER: Literary Canons and the Dynamics of Generic Change; II CLASSICS IN THE CLASSROOM; PETER PAUL SCHNIERER: Shakespeare's Complete Works: Canonization, Completion and Collection in the Twenty-First Century.
  • JOHANNES VÖLZ: The Uses of Emerson: Transcendentalism, Transnationalism, and the New AmericanistsHEIKO JAKUBZIK: Edgar Allan Poe and the Rise of Detective Fiction; SASCHA PÖHLMANN: Canon Fodder: Thomas Pynchon, Unpopular Culture, and the Invention of Postmodernism; III IN THE NAME OF DIVERSITY; FRANZISKA SCHMID: Sherman Alexie and the Uses of Native American Literature; KATHARINA GERUND: Contested Canons? Toni Morrison and the Nobel Prize in Germany; CAROLINE LUSIN: Canon and Carnival: Challenging Hierarchies in Zadie Smith's ‚NW' (2012)
  • JAN RUPP: New Canons for the Classroom: Teaching Black British WritingDIRK WIEMANN: The Great Unread: Indian Writing in English and its Shadow Canons; IV LOST FIGURES, UNLIKELY REVIVALS, NEWCOMERS; STEFANIE SCHÄFER: John Neal's ‚Brother Jonathan' and the Problem of American Romanticism; KARIN HÖPKER: Only in the Chattel Records-Obscurity, Historiography, and Frederick Douglass's ‚The Heroic Slave'; TIM SOMMER: Charismatic Authorship: Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and the Nineteenth-Century Construction of Romantic Canonicity
  • SOPHIE SPIELER: No Longer the 'Text-Book' of any Generation: ‚Stover at Yale' and the Non-CanonicalKIRSTEN HERTEL: Highbrow-Middlebrow-Broadbrow? J.B. Priestley and Cultural Re-Education in Postwar German Theatre; ELLEN REDLING: Canonizing Youth in Mark Ravenhill's Major Plays; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS