The tyranny of elegance
consumer cosmopolitanism in the era of Goethe
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Author
Publication
1998 - The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
75,250 words, Guess
Page Count
301 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL353888M
- ISBN-100801858747
- OCLC Control Number38573486
- OCLC Control Numbertyrannyofeleganc00purd
- Library of Congress Control Number98013582
and 2 more
- Goodreads381998
- LibraryThing736389
Classifications
- DDC339.4/7/094309034
- LCCHC290.5.C6 P87 1998
Description
In The Tyranny of Elegance, Daniel Purdy examines the coming of bourgeois fashion (Mode) and luxury consumerism (Luxus) to eighteenth-century Germany. Purdy examines the extraordinary influence of Frederick Bertuch's Mode Journal, which chronicled in obsessive detail the clothing and decorative trends in London, Paris, and other European capitals. He traces the elite reaction against fashion that followed the example of the king, Frederick the Great, who dressed poorly - in worn and even dirty clothes - to separate himself from the francophile fastidiousness typical of absolutist armies. The changing notions of personal appearance that swept Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, Purdy concludes, were more than simply new styles reflecting new political ideologies - they indicated a fundamental shift in the epistemology of the subject and the body.
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