Fabricating Pleasure: Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830

by Karin A. Wurst

Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814331319
• ISBN13: 9780814331316
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"