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8%OFFMatt Erlin - Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 - 9780801479403 - V9780801479403
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Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

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Description for Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 Paperback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801479403
SKU
V9780801479403
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About Matt Erlin
Matt Erlin is Professor and Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Berlin's Forgotten Future: City, History and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Germany and coeditor of Distant Readings: Topographies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century and German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation.

Reviews for Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815
"Necessary Luxuries is one of the finest books I have read on eighteenth-century German literature. Matt Erlin brings together three sources; canonical eighteenth-century novels are contextualized within the century's vociferous discussion of luxury consumption and this text-context relation is then examined through the range of late twentieth-century scholarship on consumer culture generally. The author is thorough and well read; not ... Read more

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