<i>Publishing Culture and the ‘Reading Nation’: German Book History in the Long Nineteenth Century</i> . Ed. by L <scp>ynne</scp> T <scp>atlock</scp> . <i>Publishing Culture and the ‘Reading Nation’: German Book History in the Long Nineteenth Century</i> . Ed. by TatlockLynne. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2010. x + 345 pp. £40. <scp>isbn</scp> 978 1 57113 402 8
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This volume is indebted for its title to William St Clair's The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, 2004). St Clair had urged ‘that any study of the consequences of the reading of the past ought to consider the print that was actually read, not some modern selection, whether that selection is derived from judgments of canon or from other modern criteria’. In accordance with this approach, the contributions in this book, all but one by American Germanists, examine a range of books that were widely read in Germany in the period from the late 1780s to the early 1930s, to offer insight into the ‘complex and nuanced picture of writing, publishing, and reading in the shadow of nation-building and class formation’ there. In her introduction Lynne Tatlock reminds us of the enormous expansion of the book trade in Germany during the ‘long nineteenth century’. Output had doubled in the last half of the eighteenth century, and between 1821 and 1845 the number of new titles tripled from 4,505 to 14,059. Despite the impact of war, economic depression, and the problems of censorship, by 1910 Germany was producing 31,281 titles, three times as many as Britain and indeed almost as many as Britain, France, and the USA put together. The count rose to 37,866 in 1927. Over the period under consideration the types of books on offer changed considerably: for instance, in 1770 one quarter of all books published were on theological subjects while only four per-cent were novels. By 1800 theology had declined, and would decline still further, while the first decade of the nineteenth century saw the number of novels published increase elevenfold compared with what it had been in the 1760s. During the third quarter of the nineteenth century the number of bookshops in Germany doubled, and over roughly the same period women's reading of books and magazines also doubled. The aim of this book is, then, to offer a number of exemplary studies that illustrate key developments in the book trade and in reading habits during the one hundred and fifty years or so from the Enlightenment to the Weimar Republic, a period that saw massive changes in German society through industrialization, urbanization, and especially — as several of the essays in the book underline — through the political unification of Germany in 1871.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it