Necessary luxuries: books, literature, and the culture of consumption in Germany, 1770 - 1815

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. W...

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Beteilige Person: Erlin, Matt 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [u.a.] 2014
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Signale : modern German letters, cultures, thought
A Signale book
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Links:https://muse.jhu.edu/book/31322
https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801470431
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=027442098&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Zusammenfassung: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?
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:XII, 264 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780801453045
9780801479403
DOI:10.7591/9780801470431