On the political aspects of the ideas of the bourgeois family in dramas of the late 18th century.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02412
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: Suga Rie 三重大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (50534492)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: レッシング / レンツ / シラー / ヴィーラント / コスモポリタニズム / パトリオティズム / ナショナリズム / 啓蒙時代

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Through this study, I clarified the role that a modern family image served in the process of formation of the political identity in the modernization of German-speaking countries. In the prevailing studies, the political function of a modern bourgeois family image is found in a role as a tool of conservative order maintenance. However, in this study, it is attempted to forcuss how it functioned as an expression of bourgeois ideals such as equality and humanity. The ideas of the bourgeois family had contradictory aspects, were incorporated into the various political attitudes. Through the Analysis of various works by Schiller and Wieland, it is shown that the ideas of the bourgeois family played an important role in the discourses of cosmopolitanism and patriotism.

Free Research Field

ドイツ文学