Necessary Luxuries Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad-coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally: the book. In Necessary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Erlin, Matt, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2014]
Colección:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Guilty pleasures
  • The conceptual landscape of luxury in Germany
  • Thinking about luxury editions in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany
  • The appetite for reading around 1800
  • The enlightenment novel as artifact: J.H. Campe's Robinson der Jüngere and C.M. Wieland's Der goldne Spiegel
  • Karl Philipp Moritz and the system of needs
  • Products of the imagination: mining, luxury, and the Romantic artist in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen
  • Symbolic economies in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften
  • Conclusion: Useful subjects?