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

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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 Necessar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erlin, Matt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2014]
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Subjects:
Books and reading > Germany > History > 18th century.
Books and reading > Germany > History > 19th century.
Livres et lecture > Allemagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Livres et lecture > Allemagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Books and reading.
Germany.
1700-1899
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Guilty Pleasures
  • 1. The Conceptual Landscape of Luxury in Germany
  • 2. Thinking about Luxury Editions in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Germany
  • 3. The Appetite for Reading around 1800
  • 4. The Enlightenment Novel as Artifact: J.H. Campe's Robinson der Jüngere and C.M. Wieland's Der goldne Spiegel
  • 5. Karl Philipp Moritz and the System of Needs
  • 6. Products of the Imagination: Mining, Luxury, and the Romantic Artist in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen
  • 7. Symbolic Economies in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften
  • Conclusion: Useful Subjects?
  • Works Cited
  • Index