A Serious Matter and True Joy

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A Serious Matter and True Joy is written by Margaret Eleanor Menninger and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004507809 (ISBN 10) and 9789004507807 (ISBN 13).

This book offers a novel approach to the history of high culture and new perspectives on the history of civil society in provincial Germany. It makes the concept of place a central means for understanding how art culture was defined, consumed, and, importantly, distributed over the course of the long nineteenth century. It shows how “temples of culture” come to be built where they were built. It further demonstrates who participated in their planning, funding, construction, and ultimate evolution into public institutions, highlighting underexamined links between the history of art culture and that of urban history and civil society.