The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe

by Daniel L. Purdy and Professor Daniel L. Purdy

In a famous intersection of fashion and literature, the popularity of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther provoked hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of young Germans to purchase... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801858747
• ISBN13: 9780801858741
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"