The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities engages with the contemporary Anglophone novel and its derivatives and by-products such as graphic novels, comics, podcasts, and Quality TV. This collection investigates the meaning of the novel in the larger system of contemporary media production and (post-)print culture, viewing the novel through the lens of actor network theory as a node in the novel network. Chapters underscore the deep interconnection between all the aspects of the novel, between the novel as a (literary) form, as an idea, and as a commodity. Bringing together experts from American, British, and Postcolonial Studies, as well as Book, Publishing, and Media Studies, this collection offers a new vantage point to view the novel in its multifaceted expressions today.

Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Research Fellow for Literary Theory, Literary Studies, and the Communication of Literary Studies at Goethe University, Germany. He is the author most recently ofBooks of the Dead: Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature (2018).

Corinna Norrick-Rühl is Chair of Book Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. Her most recent publications areBook Clubs and Book Commerce (2019) andInternationaler Buchmarkt (2019).

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Novel as Network, Tim Lanzendörfer and Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 2: Introduction: Novel Forms, Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 3: The Novels Novelty Now, Mathias Nilges.- Chapter 4: The Cosmopolitan Value of the Multicultural Novel, Kristian Shaw.- Chapter 5: The Novel Network and the Work of Genre, Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 6: Can a Novel Contain a Comic? Graphic Nerd Ecology in Contemporary US Fiction, Christopher Pizzino.- Chapter 7: Introduction: Novel Ideas, Tim Lanzendörfer and Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 8: Speculative Nostalgia and Media of the New Intersectional Left: My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Stephen Shapiro.- Chapter 9: From Comic to Graphic and from Book to Novel: Sandmans Invisible Authors and the Quest for Literariness, Julia Round.- Chapter 10: Listening to the Literary: On the Novelistic Poetics of the Podcast, Patrick Gill.- Chapter 11: The Video Game Novel: Story-World Narratives, Novelization, and the Contemporary Novels Network, Tamer Thabet and Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 12: Introduction: Novel Commodities, Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 13: Locating the Goods in Contemporary Literary Culture: Between the Book and the Archive, Jim Collins.- Chapter 14: Auratic Facsimile: The Print Novel in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Julia Panko.- Chapter 15: Sensing the Novel/Seeing the Book/Selling the Goods, Claire Squires.- Chapter 16: Shakespeare Novelized: Hogarth, Symbolic Capital, and the Literary Market, Jeremy Rosen.- Chapter 17: Reading the Small American Novel: The Aesthetic Agency of the Short Book in the Modern Literary Marketplace, Alexander Starre.