The Proletarian Dream Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933
Volkserwählte”¹⁴adds some credencetosuch unflatteringportrayals.Indeed, the epithet“chosen by the people”openlyrecognizes his ac ...
sentation greatlybenefited Social Democracyand the workers’movement.This did not stopBecker from expressinghis intense distaste ...
especiallyintheir political manifestations, resisted easy integration into the heroic narrativesofworking-class mobilization. Co ...
for working-class and lower-middle-class readers,these novels addressed urgent social problems but did so inahighlysensationalis ...
ground. She now rests (dead?unconscious?) in the arms of her aggrieved father; both are surrounded byagroup of workers. This typ ...
bells,asifsomeone had announced thatarescuer,ahelper,atrue friend was near.“Fe r- dinand Lassalle,”they shouted and pressed clos ...
Another three hundred pages later,Lassalle resurfaces once more duringa masked ball in Paris wherehebarelyescapes an attempt on ...
and conclude that“cult and kitsch”wereanintegralpart of socialist festivities andmythologies.²⁶The comparison to idolatry in som ...
public intellectuals (e.g.,NapoleonBonaparteasrevolutionary-dictator,Frie- drich Schiller as revolutionary-poet). In fact,the Sc ...
seduction as templates for proletarian identifications might initiallyseem baf- fling–but onlyifcontent is privileged over form ...
Even if such remarks are read asamocking reenactment of then-fashionable physiognomic ideas, as some Marx defenders have done, o ...
by the exchange.Hestared, stared outside, at the thousand-headedmass.And suddenlyhe knewwhowas waitingfor the messiah.³⁰ Toward ...
Chapter 7 Re/WritingWorkers’Emotions The modern workerdoes not live on breadalone; he cannot be reduced to his working life. He ...
do political parties and labor unions influenceyou?”or“Do youhavehopes that your situation will improvesoon?”or“Areyouwithout ho ...
ductionto another collection how much“editing books involves emotional suf- fering.Not being able to extend one’shand to all tho ...
soul is in fact produced–beginning with the extensive exchanges between the workers’writers and their bourgeois editors.For both ...
except profane matter.Matterisimmortal in the process ofdevelopment.And beyond mat- ter? Nonsense. Thereyouhaveyour redemption.⁸ ...
Others underminegenre-related expectations by emulatingthe chronicle format with its primary focus on facts and events. In all c ...
Just as the public fascination with workers’life writingslasted little more thanadecade, the scholarlyinterest in workers’lifewr ...
dungsroman,the novel of education so crucial to conceptions of bourgeois sub- jectivity.¹³By contrast,WolfgangEmmerich emphasize ...
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