Of Good and Bad Neighbors: Middle-Class Life in the Work of Jorg Wickram
Jorg Wickram's novel Von guten und bosen Nachbaurn (1556) draws, with educative intent, on the lives of well-to-do merchants and craftsmen. Goodwill, honesty, prudence, and diligence form the basis of a successful career, furthered by suitable experience abroad and a partnership between craft a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1995
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1995, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 533-545 |
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| Summary: | Jorg Wickram's novel Von guten und bosen Nachbaurn (1556) draws, with educative intent, on the lives of well-to-do merchants and craftsmen. Goodwill, honesty, prudence, and diligence form the basis of a successful career, furthered by suitable experience abroad and a partnership between craft and capital. Although the narrative shows relatively little of the daily concerns of a mercantile life, its acute dangers are illustrated, primarily to teach the value of mutual aid and support within the network of business contacts. Marriage is a loving partnership in which wives' opinions are respected but not in conflict with those of right-minded husbands; wives play very little part in working life. The well-to-do middle-class household is depicted, most unusually for the literature of the period, as sufficient in itself as a goal for the aspirations of youth. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2543137 |