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CFP: Panel(s): The Business of Literature: Authorship, Publishing, AestheticsFortieth Annual German Studies Association ConferenceSeptember 29 – October 2, San Diego, CAIn the context of expanding literary markets throughout the nineteenth century, this series of panels seeks to foreground new approaches that consider how evolving publishing practices impacted the production of literary texts. Papers might address issues such as:Publishing relationships (business, friendship, family)Authorship and collaborationEditingWord and imageReprinting, repurposing, and translationJournal binding, book editions, collecting and luxury editionsJournal editions vs. book editionsInternational marketingLiterary centersLending libraries, reading clubs, fandomLiterary professions: bookbinding, layout, printing, guild culturesCensorshipGenderVerlagsbuchhandlungenBuchmessenIntelligenzblätter / AdvertisementsLiterary review culturesRise of the influence of the literary criticsNachdruck, Raubdruck, competitorsUrheberrecht / intellectual propertyPublisher identitySerial novel / industrial transformation of literature / independent authorshipExpanding readership / literacyPlease direct questions and abstracts (ca. 250 words) to Ervin Malakaj (emalakaj​@shsu.edu) and Vance Byrd (byrdvl​@grinnell.edu) by January 22, 2016.&#160;&#160;&#160;