'Bildung und Wissen, und zwar in volkstümlicher Weise, dem allgemeinen Verständnis zugänglich machen': Tradition (er)finden in "Westermanns Monatsheften"

• Christoph Jürgensen ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Wuppertal

     University of Wuppertal

     Kreisfreie Stadt Wuppertal, Alemania

     
• Localización: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, ISSN 0340-4528, Vol. 44, Nº. 1, 2019, pág. 240
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The nineteenth-century journal Westermanns Monatshefte was a publication that aimed to collect and register the contemporary knowledge of its time for a bourgeois audience. In doing so, the journal served – as this article will show – as a tradition-generating institution within the cultural field. With respect to the literary field in particular, this cultural journal tried to promote a traditional form of novella as a leading literary genre, an endeavour which can particularly be seen in the journal’s collaboration with Paul Heyse