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 Necessar...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,
2014.
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Obsah:
- 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?