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.
Описание: Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ - probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume - exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the embroidery on her gown are typically English; but her head-dress and slippers are decidedly exotic, the inscriptions beside her are Latin, and her creator was an ’incomer’ artist. She is emblematic of the early modern culture of exchange, both between England and its neighbours, and between Europe and the wider world. This volume presents fresh research into such early modern exchanges, exploring how new identities, subjectivities and artefacts were forged in dialogues and encounters between diverse cultures, nations and language communities. The early modern period was a time of creative interactions between cultures and disciplines, and accordingly this is a multidisciplinary volume, drawing together international experts in literature, history, modern and ancient languages and art history. It understands cultural exchange as encompassing both the geographical mobilities of travel and trade and the transmission of ideas across borders and between languages, as enabled by the new technology of print. Sites of exchange were located not only in distant and unfamiliar lands, but also in the bookseller’s shop and the scholar’s study. The volume also explores the productive and complex dialogues between early modern culture and the classical past. The types of exchanges discussed include the linguistic transactions of translation and imitation; interactions between cultural elites, such as monarchs, courtiers and diplomats; and the catalytic influences of particularly mobile or outward-looking individuals and groups. Ranging from the neo-Latin poetry of an English author to the plays of a nun in seventeenth-century New Spain, from royal portraits exchanged in diplomatic negotiations to travelling companions in the Ottoman Empire, the volume sheds new light
Автор: Radford Название: Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940 ISBN: 0230283942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230283947 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the `Channel Packet` and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between `high` and popular art forms.
Автор: Radford Andrew, Reid Victoria Название: Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets ISBN: 1349329142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349329144 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the `Channel Packet` and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between `high` and popular art forms.
Автор: Cian Duffy Название: Romantic Norths ISBN: 3319512455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319512457 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. 'Imaginary circles round the human mind': bias and openness in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) - Christoph Bode.- Chapter 3. From 'enlightened' expectations to 'romantic' fulfilment: British travellers visiting Finland - Leena Eilittд.- Chapter 4. Constructing and classifying 'the North': Linnaeus in Lapland - Annika Lindskog.- Chapter 5. Inventing Jutland for the 'Golden Age': Danish artists guided by Sir Walter Scott - Gertrud Oelsner.- Chapter 6. 'The dance all under the greenwood tree': British and Danish romantic-period adaptations of two Danish 'elf ballads' - Lis M ller.- Chapter 7. 'The North' and 'the East': the Odin migration theory in the eighteenth century and romantic periods - Robert Rix.- Chapter 8. 'These children of nature': cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Danish imaginings of Greenland - Lone K lle Martinsen.- Chapter 9. Locating Norway in 'the North': the cultural geography of Norway in Strickland's 'Arthur Ridley; or A Voyage to Norway' (1826) and Andersen's 'Elverh i' (1845) - Elettra Carbone.- Chapter 10. A 'remote and cheerless possession': early nineteenth-century British imaginings of Newfoundland - Pam Perkins.- Chapter 11. Coda: Comparing the literature of 'the North': William Wordsworth and Jens Baggesen - Cian Duffy.- Bibliography.-
Описание: This book examines women`s domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level.
Автор: Stephen Ahern Название: Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770–1830 ISBN: 1409455610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409455615 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of transatlantic slavery at the turn of the nineteenth century. The contributors examine poetry, plays, petitions, treatises and life-writing that engaged with contemporary debates about abolition.
Описание: This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity`s evolution.
Автор: Felicity James, Julian North Название: Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian auto/biography ISBN: 0367264862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367264864 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contributions to this book analyse material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories. It was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Автор: Hackett, Helen Название: Early Modern Exchanges ISBN: 0367880105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367880101 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The culture of early modern England and Europe was richly hybrid, forged through interactions between diverse nations and language communities, and through new encounters with the wider world beyond Europe. Ranging from the neo-Latin poetry of an English author to the Spanish plays of a nun in the New World, from royal portraits exchanged in diplom
Автор: Gonthier Ursula Haskins Название: Montesquieu and England: Enlightened Exchanges, 1689-1755 ISBN: 1138663832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138663831 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gonthier sets Montesquieu`s work in the context of early eighteenth-century Anglo-French relations, taking a comparative approach to show how Montesquieu`s engagement with English thought and writing persisted throughout his writing career.
Автор: Wright Julia M., Hutchings Kevin Название: Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790-1870: Gender, Race, and Nation ISBN: 1409409538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409409533 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race, and national and cultural differences, this collection demonstrates the generative potential of transatlantic studies to loosen demographic frames and challenge conveniently linear histories.
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