Reading Germany : Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933 （Library Binding）

Reuveni, Gideon

Berghahn Books（2005/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781845450878
• DDC分類 830.900912

Full Description

By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to the conclusion that, contrary to widely held assumptions, consumer culture in the Weimar period, far from undermining reading, used reading culture to enhance its goods and values. Reading material was marked as a consumer good, while reading as an activity, raising expectations as it did, influenced consumer culture. Consequently, consumption contributed to the diffusion of reading culture, while at the same time a popular reading culture strengthened consumption and its values.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Reading as a Barometer of German Society after the First World War

Chapter 2. Reading Culture, Reading Budgets, and Consumer Society

Chapter 3. From the Commercialization of Reading to Commercializing Reading

Chapter 4. From Reading Books to Consumption of Books and Back Again

Chapter 5. The Struggle over Reading: Studies of Reading and the Fight against Schund- und Schmutzschriften

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index