{"product_id":"necessary-luxuries-books-literature-and-the-culture-of-consumption-in-germany-1770-1815-paperback-softback-9780801479403","title":"Necessary Luxuries; Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801479403","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNecessary Luxuries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBooks, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatt Erlin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801479403\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 June 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding 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, one that allows us to view the entire period in terms of a dynamic unity, rather than simply as a series of literary trends and countertrends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Guilty Pleasures\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Conceptual Landscape of Luxury in Germany\u003cbr\u003e 2. Thinking about Luxury Editions in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Germany\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Appetite for Reading around 1800\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Enlightenment Novel as Artifact: J. H. Campe's \u003ci\u003eRobinson der Jüngere\u003c\/i\u003e and C. M. Wieland's \u003ci\u003eDer goldne Spiegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Karl Philipp Moritz and the System of Needs\u003cbr\u003e 6. Products of the Imagination: Mining, Luxury, and the Romantic Artist in Novalis's \u003ci\u003eHeinrich von Ofterdingen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Symbolic Economies in Goethe's \u003ci\u003eDie Wahlverwandtschaften\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Useful Subjects?\u003ci\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52542159356184,"sku":"9780801479403","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/necessary-luxuries-books-literature-and-the-culture-of-consumption-in-germany-1770-1815-paperback-softback-9780801479403","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}