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Based on an international conference held in Saarbrücken in June 2017 that was attended by scholars from France, Germany, England and Ireland, the articles gathered in this volume constitute volume 6 of the LAPASEC series (Landau-Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century). The essays represent the outstanding contributions to the symposium. Concerned with intermediality and the circulation of knowledge in the age of Enlightenment, the twelve pieces, divided into four sections, address aspects of theory, discursive intermediality, generic intermediality and the intermediality of objects. In doing so, they take cognizance of what is amiss in the field of intertextual/intermedial studies, i.e. the discussion of its relevance outside narratology as well as a true and interdisciplinary interest in the essentially rhizomatic nature of cultural representations (texts, images, musical pieces and material objects). The ensemble of articles also takes scholarly analysis beyond the dominating fields of literature and art by providing discussions of such neglected genres as travel literature, (para)medical writing and operatic performance. Instead of insisting on the generic separation of cultural representations, this collection demonstrates the advantages of interdisciplinary approaches while laying bare the fascinating if problematic construction of the aesthetics and ideologies shaping principles of cultural representation in the age of Enlightenment.

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Table of Contents


Foreword .................................................................................................................. vii

Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1
HANS-PETER WAGNER


Aspects of Theory

Media, Genre, Reception and Frame: Putting Terms in Relation ............................ 7
KERSTIN-ANJA MÜNDERLEIN


Discursive Intermediality

The Circulation of Anecdotes on Female Barrenness in the Eighteenth Century .... 23
SOPHIE VASSET

"He Knows Plants and Draws Prettily":
Intermediality in William Bartram´s Travels ........................................................... 33
MARCEL HARTWIG

The Frontiers of the Muses´ Territory:
Prologue and Epilogue in Eighteenth-century Theatrical Discourse ....................... 49
KERSTIN FEST


Generic Intermediality

The Success and Signification of The Beggar´s Opera (1728) in an

Era of Illiteracy, Expensive Acis and Galatea, an Intermedial Exploration ............ 89
JEFFREY HOPES

Intermediality, Intertextuality and Interculturality:
Echoes of Tom Jones and Marriage à-la-mode in Der Rosenkavalier .................... 99
PIERRE DEGOTT

Of Pygmies and Giants: On the Rhizomatous Connections
Between Swift´s Lilliputians and Dwarfs in Renaissance Art .................................. 115
HANS-PETER WAGNER

Manon / Merteuil: An Essay on the Intermediality
of French Eighteenth-century Heroines ................................................................... 155
GREGOR SCHUHEN

Envisioning Blake in Popular Culture:
The Iconotext, Intermediality and the Postmodern Graphic Novel ......................... 167
MARIA SEVERIN


Intermediality and Objects

· la recherche du papier perdu -
Some Possible Circulations of Waste Paper in Eighteenth-century England .......... 185
GEOFFREY DAY AND AMÉLIE JUNQUA

Paper, Ceramics, and Textiles:
Eurasia Cross-Media Fertilisation of Motifs and Techniques .................................. 203
ARIANE FENNETAUX

Notes on Contributors .............................................................................................. 219

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