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"Just for me": Bourgeois Values and Romantic Courtship in the 1855 Travel Diary of Marie von Bonin

Breidenbaugh, Margaret Estelle
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1966-6246
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami153333393238569

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2018, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
This thesis considers the origins of the embourgeoisement of the mid-nineteenth-century German aristocracy through the lens of the summer 1855 travel diary of twenty-year-old Landedelfraulein (country noble maiden) Marie von Bonin, the oldest daughter of Maria Keller and landowner and politician Gustav von Bonin. Scholars of German history have often contended that the influence of middle-class values on German nobles originated with print culture and socio-political movements. While this thesis neither contradicts, nor focuses on these claims, it examines the ways that the lived experiences of everyday people also gave birth to middle-class values. Focusing on the themes of Heimat (home), travel and education, and romantic courtship, this thesis concludes that Marie’s bourgeois views were not revolutionary; rather, they exemplified the influence of middle-class values on the mid-nineteenth century German aristocracy.
Erik Jensen, PhD (Advisor)
Steven Conn, PhD (Committee Member)
Nicole Thesz, PhD (Committee Member)
90 p.
Education History; European History; Families and Family Life; Foreign Language; Gender; Gender Studies; Germanic Literature; History; Language; Literature; Modern History; Modern Language; Modern Literature; Pedagogy
German history; romantic courtship; Heimat; home; family life; education for women; history of education; social history; history of women; 19th century; nineteenth century; von Bonin; spa cures; health history

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  • Breidenbaugh, M. E. (2018). "Just for me": Bourgeois Values and Romantic Courtship in the 1855 Travel Diary of Marie von Bonin [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami153333393238569

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Breidenbaugh, Margaret. "Just for me": Bourgeois Values and Romantic Courtship in the 1855 Travel Diary of Marie von Bonin. 2018. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami153333393238569.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Breidenbaugh, Margaret. ""Just for me": Bourgeois Values and Romantic Courtship in the 1855 Travel Diary of Marie von Bonin." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami153333393238569

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