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oapen-20.500.12657-398552020-06-24T00:49:03Z The Merchant in German Literature of the Enlightenment Van Cleve, John W. German Studies Literature bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism John Van Cleve analyzes the influence of the merchant class on what Leo Balet termed the 'Verburgerlichung' (the 'becoming middle-class') of German literature during the eighteenth century. He describes the origins and development of the class and examines its successive images in works by Haller, Schnabel, Borkenstein, Luise Gottsched, J. E. Schlegel, Gellert, and Lessing. Between the years 1729 and 1750, merchants were better able to lend financial support to the literary world than were civil servants and professionals. Although merchants were central in the cultural life of the German states, they were usually less educated than other members of their social stratum and therefore less disposed to literature. Tradition has cast the merchant class in a highly unflattering light as ethically indefensible. Van Cleve's in-depth analysis traces the evolution of attitudes toward merchants from negative, underdeveloped images to positive, heroic portrayals. 2020-06-23T07:41:55Z 2020-06-23T07:41:55Z 1986 book ONIX_20200623_9781469656878_103 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39855 eng UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781469656878_WEB.pdf https://uncpress.org/book/9781469656861/the-merchant-in-german-literature-of-the-enlightenment/ University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469656878_Cleve 10.5149/9781469656878_Cleve 29b4cf74-8c0a-422f-9d27-e862ca722861 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 105 192 Chapel Hill [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] Humanities Open Book Program Humanities Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation open access
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John Van Cleve analyzes the influence of the merchant class on what Leo Balet termed the 'Verburgerlichung' (the 'becoming middle-class') of German literature during the eighteenth century. He describes the origins and development of the class and examines its successive images in works by Haller, Schnabel, Borkenstein, Luise Gottsched, J. E. Schlegel, Gellert, and Lessing. Between the years 1729 and 1750, merchants were better able to lend financial support to the literary world than were civil servants and professionals. Although merchants were central in the cultural life of the German states, they were usually less educated than other members of their social stratum and therefore less disposed to literature. Tradition has cast the merchant class in a highly unflattering light as ethically indefensible. Van Cleve's in-depth analysis traces the evolution of attitudes toward merchants from negative, underdeveloped images to positive, heroic portrayals.
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