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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and ThoughtPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801470431
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 028.9094309033 23
LOC classification:
  • Z1003.5.G4 E73 2016
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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
Title is part of eBook package: COR eBook Package 2011-2017Title is part of eBook package: COR eBook-Package 2000-2015Title is part of eBook package: Cornell Univ. Press eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015Summary: 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 Luxuries, Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing specifically on Germany where literature, and the fine arts in general, were the subject of soul-searching debates over the legitimacy of luxury in the modern world.Building on recent work done in the fields of consumption studies as well as the New Economic Criticism, Erlin combines intellectual-historical chapters (on luxury as a concept, luxury editions, and concerns about addictive reading) with contextualized close readings of novels by Campe, Wieland, Moritz, Novalis, and Goethe. As he demonstrates, artists in this period were deeply concerned with their status as luxury producers. The rhetorical strategies they developed to justify their activities evolved in dialogue with more general discussions regarding new forms of discretionary consumption. By emphasizing the fragile legitimacy of the fine arts in the period, Necessary Luxuries offers a fresh perspective on the broader trajectory of German literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, recasting the entire period in terms of a dynamic unity, rather than simply as a series of literary trends and countertrends.
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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

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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 Necessary Luxuries, Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing specifically on Germany where literature, and the fine arts in general, were the subject of soul-searching debates over the legitimacy of luxury in the modern world.Building on recent work done in the fields of consumption studies as well as the New Economic Criticism, Erlin combines intellectual-historical chapters (on luxury as a concept, luxury editions, and concerns about addictive reading) with contextualized close readings of novels by Campe, Wieland, Moritz, Novalis, and Goethe. As he demonstrates, artists in this period were deeply concerned with their status as luxury producers. The rhetorical strategies they developed to justify their activities evolved in dialogue with more general discussions regarding new forms of discretionary consumption. By emphasizing the fragile legitimacy of the fine arts in the period, Necessary Luxuries offers a fresh perspective on the broader trajectory of German literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, recasting the entire period in terms of a dynamic unity, rather than simply as a series of literary trends and countertrends.

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