Necessary Luxuries Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770ђ́أ1815 / Matt Erlin.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Access E-Book
Access Note:Open Access.
Main Author: Erlin, Matt (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Table of 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 Ju⁺˜ngere 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?