Buch, Deutsch, Band Band 011, 179 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 381 g
Reihe: Gesellschaftskritische Literatur – Texte, Autoren und Debatten
Projektionsfläche bürgerlicher Ängste und Sehnsüchte in der Romantik und im Vormärz
Buch, Deutsch, Band Band 011, 179 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 381 g
Reihe: Gesellschaftskritische Literatur – Texte, Autoren und Debatten
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1288-4
Verlag: V&R unipress
In the era of romanticism, authors of this period created the figure of the philistine as a bourgeois counterpart of artists, writers and freethinkers. This concept of an enemy served as a delimitation and dissociation to the bigoted milieu of the middle class and its parochialism. The philistine is therefore characterized as narrow-minded, opportunistic and dispassionate, always conforming to the respective needs of his environment – a behaviour, which in a certain social and political context, as in the era of the Conservative Order, could easily become dangerous. The present analysis aims to show the different aspects of the image of the philistine, created mainly in the first part of the 19th century, on the basis of a choice of texts of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph von Eichendorff, Heinrich Heine and Karl Immermann.