Joachim Eibach: Fragile Families, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Fragile Families
- Marriage and Domestic Life in the Age of Bourgeois Modernity (1750-1900)
- Übersetzung:
- Alissa Jones Nelson
- Verlag:
- De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 06/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783112215142
- Artikelnummer:
- 12253686
- Umfang:
- 306 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage:
- 25001
- Ausgabe:
- 1. Auflage
- Gewicht:
- 457 g
- Maße:
- 230 x 155 mm
- Stärke:
- 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 30.6.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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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