»Lobenswert ist, dass der Sammelband neben den Einzelanalysen der methodologischen Reflexion zahlreiche Seiten einräumt. Zusammenfassend stellen die versammelten Sondierungen eine weiter zu verfolgende, spannende Akzentuierung des Themenkomplexes Literatur und Wissen dar.« Jakob Christoph Heller, literaturkritik.de
is research associate at the German Department of Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research focus is on literary history and the history of knowledge of the 18th century and thereafter, literature and ethnology, and the poetics of producing and inventing.
is professor of German Literature with a special interest in the history of culture and knowledge at Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research focus is on the cultural history of knowledge; literature and science, the interdependency of knowledge and aesthetics; the imaginary in cultural phenomena and crowd behaviour; mass culture/popular culture/popularity.