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, 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.
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, 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.
In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work. Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself.
In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution—among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives—Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession."
Автор: Guthrie Название: The Material Culture of the Jacobites ISBN: 1316626237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316626238 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An original and thought-provoking study of the material objects produced, acquired and treasured by those who worked for the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, or at least felt strong nostalgia for its passing, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Автор: Schellenberg Название: Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture ISBN: 1107128161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107128163 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 60190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Betty A. Schellenberg offers new insights into the integral and influential role played by interconnected manuscript-exchanging coteries - and the private circulation of literary material that they encouraged - in creating a new form of literary culture in eighteenth-century Britain. This title is also available as Open Access.
Автор: Kingsley-Smith Название: Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture ISBN: 1107654823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107654822 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 44350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Cupid became a popular figure in sixteenth-century England, appearing in drama, paintings and lyric poetry. This book argues that Cupid`s rise to cultural prominence was a response to the Protestant Reformation, and the debates it provoked about the `Catholic` sins of lust and idolatry and the legitimacy of female rule.
Автор: Richardson Название: Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy ISBN: 1107425522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107425521 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 43290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is a detailed treatment of the continuing use of scribal transmission in Renaissance Italy and offers both an abundance of new material on the circulation of texts and a model for how to study the cultures of manuscript and print in early modern Europe.
The Dutch were culturally ubiquitous in England during the early modern period and constituted London's largest alien population in the second half of the sixteenth century. While many sought temporary refuge from Spanish oppression in the Low Countries, others became part of a Dutch diaspora, developing their commercial, spiritual, and domestic lives in England. The category "Dutch" catalyzed questions about English self-definition that were engendered less by large-scale cultural distinctions than by uncanny similarities. Doppelgänger Dilemmas uncovers the ways England's real and imagined proximities with the Dutch played a crucial role in the making of English ethnicity. Marjorie Rubright explores the tensions of Anglo-Dutch relations that emerged in the form of puns, double entendres, cognates, homophones, copies, palimpsests, doppelgängers, and other doublings of character and kind. Through readings of London's stage plays and civic pageantry, English and Continental polyglot and bilingual dictionaries and grammars, and travel accounts of Anglo-Dutch rivalries and friendships in the Spice Islands, Rubright reveals how representations of Dutchness played a vital role in shaping Englishness in virtually every aspect of early modern social life. Her innovative book sheds new light on the literary and historical forces of similitude in an era that was so often preoccupied with ethnic and cultural difference.
Автор: Sebastian Domsch Название: The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain: Discourse between Attacks and Authority ISBN: 3110356163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110356168 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 148700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
Автор: Pollie Bromilow Название: Authority in European Book Culture 1400-1600 ISBN: 1472410106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472410108 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 96970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The various manifestations of authority have enforced, or acted to prevent, the distribution of books, pamphlets and other print matter in Europe during the late medieval and Renaissance period. This volume analyzes how readers, writers and printers have sometimes rebelled against the constraints and restrictions of authority.
Автор: Phillippy Patricia Название: A History of Early Modern Women`s Writing ISBN: 1107137063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107137066 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 135170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women`s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.
Автор: Bristol Michael D. Название: Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals) Plebian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England ISBN: 0415750156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415750158 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution. This valuable work is an important contribution to literary criticism, theatre studies and social history and has particular importance for scholars interested in the dramatic literature of Elizabethan England.
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