Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Journal of Baltic Studies
Author: Jonathan Schilling
Institution: University of Münster
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410080201