Wo das Pulver Liegt Biedermeier Berlin As Reflected in Adolf Glassbrenner's "Berliner Don Quixote" |
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| Author:
| Calkins, Patricia K. |
| Series title: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8204-2851-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1998 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
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Book Description:
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Adolf Glassbrenner's short-lived literary journal,
Berliner Don Quixote (1832-1833), provides an intimate portrait of a city on the verge of modernity. The journal is treated as a cultural document, and the basic themes and concerns of middle-class life in this Prussian capital are identified. Contemporary accounts by Friedrich Arnold Steinmann und Joel Jacoby are used as external corroboration for conclusions about the cultural, political, and social concerns of Berlin's...
More DescriptionAdolf Glassbrenner's short-lived literary journal, Berliner Don Quixote (1832-1833), provides an intimate portrait of a city on the verge of modernity. The journal is treated as a cultural document, and the basic themes and concerns of middle-class life in this Prussian capital are identified. Contemporary accounts by Friedrich Arnold Steinmann und Joel Jacoby are used as external corroboration for conclusions about the cultural, political, and social concerns of Berlin's nonaristocratic classes.