Everyday life in the German book trade : Friedrich Nicolai as bookseller and publisher in the age of enlightenment 1750-1810 / Pamela E. Selwyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selwyn, Pamela E., author.

Series:

Penn State series in the history of the book.

Penn State series in the history of the book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nicolai, Friedrich, 1733-1811.

Nicolai, Friedrich.

Authors, German--18th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Publishers and publishing--Germany--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.

Germany.

Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 419 p. ) map ;

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the importance attributed to Nicolai's role in the intellectual life of his age by his own contemporaries." "While long neglected by students of the period, who tended to accept the caricature of him as a philistine who failed to recognize Goethe's genius, Nicolai has experienced a resurgence of interest among scholars reexploring the German Enlightenment and the literary marketplace of the eighteenth century."

"This book, drawing upon Nicolai's large unpublished correspondence, rounds out the picture we have of Nicolai already as author and critic by focusing on his roles as bookseller and publisher and as an Aufklarer in the book trade."--Jacket.

Contents:

The Life and Opinions of Friedrich Nicolai, Buchhandler and Aufklarer

The Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1759-1811: A Publishing Company in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution

Everyday Life in the Book Trade

The Legal and Political Framework of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: Privilege, Piracy, and Censorship

The Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek as the Centerpiece of Nicolai's Program of Enlightenment and of his Firm

Literary-Mercantile Relations: Nicolai and His Authors

Nicolai's Shop Employees.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-401) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271031156

0271031158

OCLC:

1303665975