Possible Worlds: Virtuality in the Novel of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
(B01)
Subject Area
German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
Term
since 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 470106373
The research project B01 investigates the contribution the German novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries made to the theory and history of virtuality. The question is about elements of a pre-digital virtuality that are related to concepts of fictionality and possible worlds as well as literary communication, its media and formats around 1800. It analyzes how distinctions are made between literary fiction, preforms of virtuality and reality and how a knowledge of virtuality is developed that does not depend on the technical a priori of digitization.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
