The Tyranny Of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism In The Era Of Goethe,New

The Tyranny Of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism In The Era Of Goethe,New

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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 And Wear The Blue And Yellow Suit Of The Novel'S Protagonist. Their Actions Not Only Showed Their Affinity With Werther And With Other Wearers Of The Blue And Yellow, But Also Elevated Cultural Identification Over More Traditional Elements Of Social Standing, Such As Employment, Education, Region, Or Family. Even Aristocratic Prussians Forsook Their Riding Garb For Werther'S Rustic Suit.In The Tyranny Of Elegance, Daniel Purdy Examines The Coming Of Bourgeois Fashion (Mode) And Luxury Consumerism (Luxus) To Eighteenthcentury Germany. The Liberation Symbolized By Werther'S Suit Was Illusory, He Explains, As Fashion Itself Quickly Became A Force For Conformity As Rigid As The Sumptuary Laws Such As Clothing Ordinances Of Earlier Centuries. 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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