| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series ; 305.
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| Summary |
In his ground-breaking study, Patrick Eiden-Offe gives romantic anti-capitalism its long-repressed due and liberates the social and literary history of the 19th century from one-dimensional perspectives |
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"In the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon be called the proletariat. But this did not yet exist as a unified, homogeneous class with affiliated political parties. The motley appearance, the dreams and longings of these figures, torn from all economic certainties, found new forms of narration in romantic novellas, reportages, social-statistical studies, and monthly bulletins. But soon enough, these disorderly, violent, nostalgic, errant, and utopian figures were denigrated as reactionary and anarchic by the heads of the labour movement, since they did not fit into their grand linear vision of progress. This book tells their story, and in so doing, reveals a striking similarity to the disorderly classes of today"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Romanticism -- Germany
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Social classes in literature.
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Proletariat in literature.
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Capitalism in literature.
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Social classes.
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social classes.
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Social classes
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blumenfeld, Jacob, translator.
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| ISBN |
9004685537 |
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9789004685536 |
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