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Necessary luxuries : books, literature, and the culture of consumption in Germany, 1770/1815 / Matt Erlin.
LIBRA Z1003.5.G4 E73 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erlin, Matt, author.
- Series:
- Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Signale
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--Germany--History--18th century.
- Books and reading.
- Books and reading--Germany--History--19th century.
- History.
- Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Germany.
- Intellectual life.
- Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014.
- Contents:
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801453045
- 0801453046
- 9780801479403
- 0801479401
- OCLC:
- 863200140
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