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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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press and Cornell Univ. Library,
2014
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Signale : modern German letters, cultures and thought
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| Schlagworte: | Books and reading Deutsch Literatur Verbraucherverhalten Leseverhalten Geschichte 1770-1815 Deutschland Literaturproduktion Literarisches Leben Lesen mehr... |
| Umfang: | XII, 264 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: Guilty pleasuresThe 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?
- Includes bibliographical references and index