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Fragile Families : Marriage and Domestic Life in the Age of Bourgeois Modernity (1750-1900) / Joachim Eibach.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (IX, 293 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783111080888
  • 9783111082158
  • 9783111081700
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  • 306.85094
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Fragile Families? Stylish Staging and Everyday Disorder -- Chapter 2 Research and Sources -- Chapter 3 Love and a House of His Own: The Peasant Ulrich Bräker Seeks a Wife -- Chapter 4 Pious Everyday Life in the Bailiwick and the Patrician Milieu: Henriette Stettler-Herport -- Chapter 5 Bourgeois Marriage and Open Domesticity: Ferdinand and Caroline Beneke -- Chapter 6 The Parsonage as Labyrinth: Ursula and Abraham Bruckner-Eglinger -- Chapter 7 A Traveling Journeyman’s Home: Friedrich Anton Püschmann -- Chapter 8 Marital Crisis and Social Decline Among the Petite Bourgeoisie: Barbara and Johann Baumgartner -- Chapter 9 Growing Up Among the Proletariat: Friedrich Engels’ Report and Adelheid Popp -- Chapter 10 From a Bourgeois Family to an Artists’ Marriage: Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn -- Chapter 11 The Family: Decline or Resilience? -- List of Figures -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects
Summary: In the era of bourgeois modernity (1750–1900), the family is as valued as it is vulnerable. It constitutes a community of care, conflict, and emotion. Time and again, it is evoked as a bond of love as well as a moral institution. Yet both love and morality are fragile. A more detailed exploration reveals that domestic life during this period was much more colorful, open, and dynamic – and also more prone to crisis – than one might expect given the vaunted view of the family that characterized the heyday of the bourgeoisie. This book rewrites the history of the modern family. Self-narratives – primarily diaries – written by members of eight families from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria serve as sources for this research. The focus extends far beyond the bourgeoisie. With a micro-historical eye, the author reconstructs family histories from the peasant milieu to the patrician elite, from the parsonage to the educated bourgeoisie; he considers the domestic life of a journeyman craftsman, a couple’s descent from the ranks of the petite bourgeoisie, the effects of an itinerant childhood among the proletariat, and the strain of being caught between a bourgeois family and artistic individuality. Many of these aspects point beyond bourgeois modernity to the family in our time.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Fragile Families? Stylish Staging and Everyday Disorder -- Chapter 2 Research and Sources -- Chapter 3 Love and a House of His Own: The Peasant Ulrich Bräker Seeks a Wife -- Chapter 4 Pious Everyday Life in the Bailiwick and the Patrician Milieu: Henriette Stettler-Herport -- Chapter 5 Bourgeois Marriage and Open Domesticity: Ferdinand and Caroline Beneke -- Chapter 6 The Parsonage as Labyrinth: Ursula and Abraham Bruckner-Eglinger -- Chapter 7 A Traveling Journeyman’s Home: Friedrich Anton Püschmann -- Chapter 8 Marital Crisis and Social Decline Among the Petite Bourgeoisie: Barbara and Johann Baumgartner -- Chapter 9 Growing Up Among the Proletariat: Friedrich Engels’ Report and Adelheid Popp -- Chapter 10 From a Bourgeois Family to an Artists’ Marriage: Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn -- Chapter 11 The Family: Decline or Resilience? -- List of Figures -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects

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In the era of bourgeois modernity (1750–1900), the family is as valued as it is vulnerable. It constitutes a community of care, conflict, and emotion. Time and again, it is evoked as a bond of love as well as a moral institution. Yet both love and morality are fragile. A more detailed exploration reveals that domestic life during this period was much more colorful, open, and dynamic – and also more prone to crisis – than one might expect given the vaunted view of the family that characterized the heyday of the bourgeoisie. This book rewrites the history of the modern family. Self-narratives – primarily diaries – written by members of eight families from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria serve as sources for this research. The focus extends far beyond the bourgeoisie. With a micro-historical eye, the author reconstructs family histories from the peasant milieu to the patrician elite, from the parsonage to the educated bourgeoisie; he considers the domestic life of a journeyman craftsman, a couple’s descent from the ranks of the petite bourgeoisie, the effects of an itinerant childhood among the proletariat, and the strain of being caught between a bourgeois family and artistic individuality. Many of these aspects point beyond bourgeois modernity to the family in our time.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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