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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Fragile Families? Stylish Staging and Everyday Disorder
Chapter 2 Research and Sources
The Family – Past and Present
Contexts: The Family, House and Home, and Domesticity
People: Actors, Subjects, and Habitus
Self-Narratives: Beyond Bürgerlichkeit
Initial Questions
Chapter 3 Love and a House of His Own: The Peasant Ulrich Bräker Seeks a Wife
Toggenburg, Switzerland (1754 – 1798)
The Literary Peasant
Courtship and Matchmaking in the Village
Rationality and Marriageability
A Precarious Married Life
Chapter 4 Pious Everyday Life in the Bailiwick and the Patrician Milieu: Henriette Stettler-Herport
Bern, Switzerland (1771 – 1789)
Self-Formation and a Pietist Record of the Soul
Household Management
Marriage Politics Among the Urban Elite
Marriage as Hierarchy and Companionship
House vs. Family: Two Models of Living Together
Chapter 5 Bourgeois Marriage and Open Domesticity: Ferdinand and Caroline Beneke
Hamburg, Germany (1805 – 1816)
The Bourgeois Romantic Subject
The House and Household
Why Caroline? The Complications of Finding a Partner
Marriage Beyond Stereotypes
Vulnerable Love and Volatile ‘Gender Characters’
The Domestic Sphere as a Social Relay
Chapter 6 The Parsonage as Labyrinth: Ursula and Abraham Bruckner-Eglinger
Basel, Switzerland (1819 – 1833)
Sociability and Self-Accusation
An Unexpected Yet Predictable Proposal of Marriage
The Perfect Household as Chronic Overload
Emotional Care Relationships
Domestication or ‘Open House’?
Chapter 7 A Traveling Journeyman’s Home: Friedrich Anton Püschmann
Stollberg, Germany, and on the Road (1848 – 1856)
The Craftsman’s Honor, Bourgeois Values (Bürgerlichkeit), and Leisure Time
Collective Domesticity Among Young Men
The Journeyman’s Travels: Variable Accommodation and No Privacy
Limited Marriage Prospects: The Barmaids and the Young Lady
The Family as an Emotional and Supportive Community
Open Domesticity in a Small-Town Context
Chapter 8 Marital Crisis and Social Decline Among the Petite Bourgeoisie: Barbara and Johann Baumgartner
Krems and Vienna, Austria (1870 – 1885)
From Naïve Girl to Sought-After Marriage Partner
Matchmaking and Marriage in a Small Town
Logbook of a Married Couple in Crisis
Female Labor and Precarious Familial Support
The Absence of Visiting Culture and the Presence of Gossip
A Modern Couple
Chapter 9 Growing Up Among the Proletariat: Friedrich Engels’ Report and Adelheid Popp
Manchester, England (1845); Inzersdorf and Vienna, Austria (1869 – 1902)
Engels’ Report on the Slums in English Cities
The Female Subject’s Emancipation from the Precariat
Migrant Families and One-Room Domesticity
Co-Presence in Chambers and Bedsits
Another Family Model?
Chapter 10 From a Bourgeois Family to an Artists’ Marriage: Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn
Bremen and Worpswede, Germany, and Paris, France (1892 – 1907)
Liberal Habitat and Cultural Capital
The Letter-Writing ‘I’ and the Diary-Keeping ‘I’
Family and Art: Between Familiarity and Departure
Engagement: A Culinary Course and ‘Social Magic’
The Chosen ‘Family’ as Sacred Friendship
Marriage as a Crisis-Ridden Communion of Soulmates
Family Trust and the Desire for Freedom
Chapter 11 The Family: Decline or Resilience?
Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks
Matchmaking and Society
Relationship Patterns and Gender
Small Rituals and Time-Outs
Work and Leisure
Habitat as an Actor
Between Privacy and Openness
List of Figures
Bibliography
Primary Sources: Unpublished
Primary Sources: Published
Selected Research Literature
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
Notes
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