Ilinca Iurascu
Eloquent and informative, Writing Time aptly combines print culture studies, intellectual history, and media archeology to probe the diverse temporal modalities that emerged and developed in the serial publication landscape of the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries.
Clare Pettitt
Sean Franzel's brilliant work brings a disciplined commitment to the archive and the specificity of the material text to a conceptually sophisticated discussion of form and formats. Writing Time moves the conversation on periodicity, periodicals and time forwards in very important ways.
Matt Erlin
Writing Time offers a uniquely comprehensive and compelling investigation of how new forms of temporal thinking were intertwined with the development of serial publication in German-language culture.
Kirsten Belgum
By combining cutting-edge work in media studies with evocative analysis of key literary examples, Sean Franzel makes a compelling case for rethinking how literature works and what its legacy is.