TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eibach,Joachim
AU  - Jones Nelson,Alissa
TI  - Fragile Families: Marriage and Domestic Life in the Age of Bourgeois Modernity (1750-1900) 
SN  - 9783111080888
U1  - 306.85094 
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - München, Wien
PB  - De Gruyter Oldenbourg
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111081700
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111081700
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111081700/original
ER  -