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  - 9780801470424
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
KW  - Bibel
KW  - Ester
KW  - gnd
KW  - Literaturproduktion
KW  - Geistesleben
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - fast
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Books & Reading
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - 18e siecle
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Leesen
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad--coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally: the book. In Necessary Luxuries, Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing specifically on Germany where literature, and the fine arts in general, were the subject of soul-searching debates over the legitimacy of luxury in the modern world. Building on recent work done in the fields of consumption studies as well as the New Economic Criticism, Erlin combines intellectual-historical chapters (on luxury as a concept, luxury editions, and concerns about addictive reading) with contextualized close readings of novels by Campe, Wieland, Moritz, Novalis, and Goethe. As he demonstrates, artists in this period were deeply concerned with their status as luxury producers. The rhetorical strategies they developed to justify their activities evolved in dialogue with more general discussions regarding new forms of discretionary consumption. By emphasizing the fragile legitimacy of the fine arts in the period, Necessary Luxuries offers a fresh perspective on the broader trajectory of German literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, recasting the entire period in terms of a dynamic unity, rather than simply as a series of literary trends and countertrends
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/31322/
ER  -