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

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Erlin, Matt, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2014]
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Books and reading > Germany > History > 19th century.
Books and reading > Germany > History > 18th century.
Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Germany > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423014606719
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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