- Summary
- Department stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, generated great excitement when they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination and even awe; at the same time, however, many Germans also greeted the rise of the department store with considerable unease. In The Consuming Temple, Paul Lerner explores the complex German reaction to department stores and the widespread belief that they posed hidden dangers both to the individuals, especially women, who frequented them and to the nation as a whole.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Lerner, Paul Frederick, author.
- Published
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2015]
©2015
- Locale
- Germany
Deutschland
Tyskland
- Contents
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Jerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany
Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question
Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King
Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany
The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index.
Jerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.
