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The Resource Everyday life in the German book trade : Friedrich Nicolai as bookseller and publisher in the age of enlightenment, 1750-1810, Pamela E. Selwyn

Everyday life in the German book trade : Friedrich Nicolai as bookseller and publisher in the age of enlightenment, 1750-1810, Pamela E. Selwyn

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In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the importance attributed to Nicolai's role in the intellectual life of his age by his own contemporaries. While long neglected by students of the period, who tended to accept the caricature of him as a philistine who failed to recognize Goethe's genius, Nicolai has experienced a resurgence of interest among scholars reexploring the German Enlightenment and the literary marketplace of the eighteenth century. This book, drawing upon Nicolai's large unpublished correspondence, rounds out the picture we have of Nicolai already as author and critic by focusing on his roles as bookseller and publisher and as an Aufkr̃er in the book trade
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 419 pages)
Isbn
9780271031156
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Everyday life in the German book trade : Friedrich Nicolai as bookseller and publisher in the age of enlightenment, 1750-1810
Title
Everyday life in the German book trade
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Friedrich Nicolai as bookseller and publisher in the age of enlightenment, 1750-1810
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Pamela E. Selwyn
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Language
eng
Summary
In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the importance attributed to Nicolai's role in the intellectual life of his age by his own contemporaries. While long neglected by students of the period, who tended to accept the caricature of him as a philistine who failed to recognize Goethe's genius, Nicolai has experienced a resurgence of interest among scholars reexploring the German Enlightenment and the literary marketplace of the eighteenth century. This book, drawing upon Nicolai's large unpublished correspondence, rounds out the picture we have of Nicolai already as author and critic by focusing on his roles as bookseller and publisher and as an Aufkr̃er in the book trade
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individual biography
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Selwyn, Pamela Eve
Dewey number
  • 070.5092
  • B
Illustrations
maps
Index
index present
LC call number
PT2440.N4
LC item number
Z875 2000
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Penn State series in the history of the book
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  • Nicolai, Friedrich
  • Authors, German
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Enlightenment
  • Germany
  • Germany
  • Nicolai, Friedrich
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
  • Authors, German
  • Enlightenment
  • Intellectual life
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Germany
  • Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
  • Boekhandelaren
  • Uitgevers
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Everyday life in the German book trade : Friedrich Nicolai as bookseller and publisher in the age of enlightenment, 1750-1810, Pamela E. Selwyn
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unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
75296191
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 419 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780271031156
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
1 map.
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not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)75296191
Label
Everyday life in the German book trade : Friedrich Nicolai as bookseller and publisher in the age of enlightenment, 1750-1810, Pamela E. Selwyn
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
75296191
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 419 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780271031156
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
1 map.
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)75296191

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