Adolf Glassbrenner's short-lived literary journal, Berliner Don Quixote (1832-1833), provides an intimate portrait of a city on the verge of modernity. The journal is treated as a cultural document, and the basic themes and concerns of middle-class life in this Prussian capital are identified. Contemporary accounts by Friedrich Arnold Steinmann und Joel Jacoby are used as external corroboration for conclusions about the cultural, political, and social concerns of Berlin's nonaristocratic classes.
| ISBN: | 9780820428512 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 1998 |
| Author: | Patricia K Calkins |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 219 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 History and Archaeology Society and culture: general |