{"product_id":"everyday-life-in-the-german-pamela-e-selwyn-9780271027975","title":"Everyday Life in the German Book Trade: Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his popular book \u003ci\u003eThe Germans\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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the literary marketplace of the eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, drawing upon Nicolai's large unpublished correspondence, rounds out the picture we have of Nicolai already as author and critic by focusing on his roles as bookseller and publisher and as an Aufk舐er in the book trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela E. Selwyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271027975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271027975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d","brand":"Pamela E. Selwyn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119499112703,"sku":"9780271027975","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f2efb033-d7a4-4577-9bfa-dc1a0c8bd86b.jpg?v=1687409662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/everyday-life-in-the-german-pamela-e-selwyn-9780271027975","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}