2025/05/05 by Jonathan Schilling · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Central European national history #European Cultural and National Identity #German Literature and Culture Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/01629778.2025.2500465
openalex publication_date 2025/05/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
While research on Baltic German literature has mainly examined the relationships between Germans and Estonians or Latvians, that is, in simple terms between the upper and lower classes, this article is the first to explore the relationships between the nobility and the bourgeoisie as they appear in fictional literature. It proposes that the educated bourgeoisie and the nobility regarded one another with mutual esteem, despite maintaining a strong separation between themselves, and both devalued the economic bourgeoisie. The year 1905 represents a turning point as the revolution united aristocratic and educated bourgeois literary figures.