Erlin, Matt,

Necessary Luxuries Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 / Matt Erlin. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Signale . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

Open Access

9780801470431 0801470439




Books and reading--History--Germany--19th century.
Books and reading--History--Germany--18th century.


Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.


Electronic books.

Z1003.5.G4 / E73 2014

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