A Smorgasbord of Print : The Development of Scholarly Publishing in the Swedish humanities, c. 1840–1880
Hammar, Isak LU
(2024)
In History of European Ideas
51(4).
p.802-819
- Abstract
- This article traces publishing patterns in the Swedish humanities between 1840 and 1880; a period characterized by a new publishing regime yet bridging two dominant publication forms, the dissertation, and the disciplinary journal. Using the prominent historian Wilhelm Erik Svedelius as an entry point, the article charts how scholars in the humanities navigated the publishing landscape in a more diverse era in European historiography, before the advent of disciplinary platforms for research and boundary work. The article demonstrates that Svedelius and his contemporaries used a plethora – or smorgasbord – of formats and hybrid genres; learned journals, transactions, yearbooks, and commercial printers that together formed an ephemeral... (More)
- This article traces publishing patterns in the Swedish humanities between 1840 and 1880; a period characterized by a new publishing regime yet bridging two dominant publication forms, the dissertation, and the disciplinary journal. Using the prominent historian Wilhelm Erik Svedelius as an entry point, the article charts how scholars in the humanities navigated the publishing landscape in a more diverse era in European historiography, before the advent of disciplinary platforms for research and boundary work. The article demonstrates that Svedelius and his contemporaries used a plethora – or smorgasbord – of formats and hybrid genres; learned journals, transactions, yearbooks, and commercial printers that together formed an ephemeral ecosystem shared across the humanities. In this pre- or semi-professional system, neither platforms nor formats were guarantors of epistemic value and forgotten genres such as printed speeches or biographies provided the opportunity to express scholarly tradecraft, evaluated by the community on the basis of their ‘scientific’ quality. (Less)
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LU
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- 2024-11
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- Scholarly publishing, disciplinary journals, learned journals, history of humanities, professionalization, dissertations
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- History of European Ideas
- volume
- 51
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 18 pages
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- Taylor & Francis
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- scopus:85210148283
- ISSN
- 1873-541X
- DOI
- 10.1080/01916599.2024.2430973
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- English
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