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Green, Keith R.

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A fairy tale world: The myth of childhood in imperial Germany.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A fairy tale world: The myth of childhood in imperial Germany./
作者:	Green, Keith R.
面頁冊數:	282 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1911.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
標題:	History, Modern. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3174180
ISBN:	0542121123

A fairy tale world: The myth of childhood in imperial Germany.
Green, Keith R.

A fairy tale world: The myth of childhood in imperial Germany. - 282 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1911.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005.

This dissertation analyzes a myth of childhood that grew in popularity over the course of the nineteenth century until it became a prominent social discourse during the German Empire (1870--1918). The myth depicted children as innocent creatures, who, because they were pure of heart, were more capable than adults of perceiving eternal truths. In particular, children were closely attuned to the natural world and understood the laws that governed it. All who believed in the myth of childhood agreed that children were possessed of this special trait, but they did not always agree on the "truths" that children perceived. People from the middle classes believed nature embodied an ethos that stressed good burgerlich values, such as thrift and diligence. Socialists believed that natural law supported the idea of an inevitable revolution. The childhood myth was therefore very fluid, and accessible to all Germans regardless of social class.

ISBN: 0542121123Subjects--Topical Terms:

516334
History, Modern.

A fairy tale world: The myth of childhood in imperial Germany.
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520 $a The myth found its most clear expression in the fairy tale literature of the imperial era, which is the chief object of study for this dissertation. By the late nineteenth century, the fairy tale had become a national literary institution in Germany, and one in which children often played a liminal role, bringing about a change of material and spiritual well being not only for themselves and their families, but sometimes for society as a whole. It was the perfect literary format to convey the message of social renewal that the childhood myth represented.
520 $a The present work focuses on the historical development of mythic concepts about childhood, and the uses to which the middle and working classes put them during the imperial era. Of central importance to this discourse is the ancient Germanic hero, Siegfried. Siegfried became a figure of national importance during the nineteenth century, and he came to embody all of the symbolic aspects of the childhood myth. He also added a new dimension---renewal through sacrifice. The sacrificial child was a figure that came to dominate the childhood myth with the advent of World War I, and this dominance carried beyond the war into the 1920s and 1930s.
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