Reading Germany

Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84545-087-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reuveni, Gideon

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Reuveni, Gideon
Gideon Reuveni is Director of the Centre for German Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the co-editor of The Economy in Jewish History (Berghahn, 2010) and several other books on different aspects of Jewish history. Presently he is working on a book on consumer culture and the making of Jewish identity in Europe.