This book offers an overview of the multifaceted field of material culture as it relates to literature. Beyond introducing basic theories and models for researching objects in the literary and cultural sciences, it undertakes analyses that demonstrate the manifestations and functions of material culture in literary texts from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Susanne Scholz, UniversitätBonn;Ulrike Vedder,Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.