Fabricating Pleasure: Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830 Contributor(s): Wurst, Karin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814331319 ISBN-13: 9780814331316 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $62.36 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2005 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - History | Europe - Germany - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 305.550 |
LCCN: 2004017868 |
Series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies |
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.3" W x 9.32" (1.73 lbs) 512 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Entertainment, defined as occasions for creating pleasure, added an important dimension to the lifestyle and self-definition of the German middle class around the turn of the nineteenth century. Modern forms of culture and consumption appearing around this time not only enhanced pleasure in physical sensations but also enabled imaginary sensations in the absence of actual stimuli. Desiring, rather than having, became an important mode of cultural consumption, linking products and practices with self-image, serving to express social identity in an increasingly more anonymous society--a society where the modern freedom of choice brought with it a loss of tradition and the stability attached to it. |