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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.

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L’occasione del ventennale del Centro Bibliotecario dell’Università degli studi di Salerno è stato lo spunto per riflettere su due temi importanti: la lettura in Italia e nel mezzogiorno e la rivoluzione annunciata e non del tutto compiuta dell’ebook. La riflessione sui dati della lettura restituisce un quadro che può definirsi deprimente rilevando segnali di una vera e propria emergenza sociale, formativa e culturale. La riflessione sulla progressiva e incruenta evoluzione degli ebook mette in luce più di un ostacolo alla piena concretizzazione.

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Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers' own voices, rather than theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and engaging structure traces reading journeys from childhood into education and adulthood, and attends to settings from home to school to library. It has a distinctive focus on reading for pleasure and its framework of argument situates that type of reading in relation to dimensions of gender and class. It is grounded in place, and particularly in the context of a specific industrial city: Sheffield. The men and women featured in the book, coming to adulthood in the 1930s and 1940s, rarely regarded reading as a means of self-improvement. It was more usually a compulsive and intensely pleasurable private activity.

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French imprints --- Books --- Books and reading --- Literature, Modern --- Books. --- Books and reading. --- French imprints. --- Literature, Modern. --- France. --- #ANTIL9810 --- #KVHA:Tijdschriften; Frans --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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Provides information about "the creation, publication, and distribution of books, past, present, and future"--V. 1, no. 1, p. [3].

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