Fragile Families
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Fragile Families

Marriage and Domestic Life in the Age of Bourgeois Modernity (1750-1900)

  1. 302 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fragile Families

Marriage and Domestic Life in the Age of Bourgeois Modernity (1750-1900)

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783111080888
eBook ISBN
9783111081700
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
19th Century History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Fragile Families? Stylish Staging and Everyday Disorder
  4. Chapter 2 Research and Sources
  5. Chapter 3 Love and a House of His Own: The Peasant Ulrich Bräker Seeks a Wife
  6. Chapter 4 Pious Everyday Life in the Bailiwick and the Patrician Milieu: Henriette Stettler-Herport
  7. Chapter 5 Bourgeois Marriage and Open Domesticity: Ferdinand and Caroline Beneke
  8. Chapter 6 The Parsonage as Labyrinth: Ursula and Abraham Bruckner-Eglinger
  9. Chapter 7 A Traveling Journeyman’s Home: Friedrich Anton Püschmann
  10. Chapter 8 Marital Crisis and Social Decline Among the Petite Bourgeoisie: Barbara and Johann Baumgartner
  11. Chapter 9 Growing Up Among the Proletariat: Friedrich Engels’ Report and Adelheid Popp
  12. Chapter 10 From a Bourgeois Family to an Artists’ Marriage: Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn
  13. Chapter 11 The Family: Decline or Resilience?
  14. List of Figures
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index of Persons
  17. Index of Subjects