TITLE
Carnival and citizenship: The politics of carnival culture in the Prussian Rhineland, 1823-1848
AUTHOR(S)
PUB. DATE
June 1997
SOURCE
Journal of Social History;Summer97, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p873
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Explores the political aspects of the bourgeois carnival culture of Prussian Rhineland in 1823-1848. Links between popular-culture forms and an emerging bourgeois public sphere; Form of cultural politics; Changes in the carnival tradition after the integration of the Rhineland into the Prussian state; Carnival's revivalist celebration of local cultural autonomy and identity.
ACCESSION #
9707192318
