'Material Delight and the Joy of Living'
Michael North
Ashgate
Hardback
288
2008
Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed a commercialisation of culture as the marketing of culture became separated from its production and new cultural entrepreneurs entered the stage. Cultural consumption also played a substantial role in creating social identity. In this book Michael North systematically explores this field for the first time in regard to the Continent and especially to eighteenth-century Germany. Chapters focus on the new forms of entertainment (concerts theatre opera reading societies travelling) on the one hand and on the new material culture (fashion gardens country houses furniture) on the other. The reception of English culture on the Continent and the competition of English and French fashions in the homes of German elites and burghers attract special attention. The book closes with an investigation of the role of cultural consumption for identity formation demonstrating the integration of Germany into a European taste discourse during the eighteenth century.

'Material Delight and the Joy of Living'

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