TY - BOOK AU - Erlin,Matt ED - Project Muse. TI - Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 T2 - Signale SN - 9780801470431 AV - Z1003.5.G4 E73 2014 U1 - 028/.9094309033 23 KW - Books and reading KW - Germany KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 18th century KW - Intellectual life KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/31322/ ER -