Anstandsbücher, Etiquette Books and Traités de Savoir-Vivre 1870–1930: Guides for Conduct as Political Media?

Anstandsbücher，礼仪书籍和特质 de Savoir-Vivre 1870â1930：作为政治媒体的行为指南？

• 批准号: 411769824
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Marc von Knorring
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/411769824?language=en
• 关键词: Anstandsb; cher; Etiquette; Books; Trait

Etiquette books were a mass-phenomenon on the international book markets from 1870 to 1930. Since the 1970s, these publications have mainly been attended to by sociology, ethnology and literature studies, inquiring into their function for the development of social rules of conduct, classes and gender roles. Consequently certain strata, age and gender groups searching for guidance in times of social change have been identified as target audience of etiquette books, whose creators perceptively catered to the target audience’s needs. The political content of the genre, however, remained blanked out. In preliminary studies the applicant has followed this new approach. First results imply that etiquette books served ideologically, politically or confessionally defined groups (i. e. segments of political cultures) as a means to attain self-assurance and delineation by adopting and influencing their attitudes. The project aims to prove this hypothesis for the first time by conducting a fundamental study based on a long-term international perspective and analyzing a large amount of sources. Focussing on Germany, France and Great Britain, the formerly leading countries on the field of etiquette literature are subject of analysis. In doing so, the project’s aim is not just to ascertain the general characteristics and significance of this genre but to contribute to some newly emerging areas of historical research: the relation between media and segments of political cultures as well as the development and function of mass media in general. For this purpose 270 etiquette books are to be analysed, 30 publications from each of the three named countries in three editions respectively published between 1870 and 1930, as this period is highly significant with regard to political and social history as well. Moreover, as a sample research is planned in up to 30 publisher’s archives to determine the intentions of the creators of manner books and especially the reception by target audiences. Leading subjects of inquiry will be the dimension of political (in a broader sense statements in etiquette books, therefore supplying a code of practice for their readers and how the publications were received by audiences and book reviewers, how authors and publishers reacted to the feedback of their clientele as well as to its transformations. Further questions are whether etiquette books were more important for certain segments of political cultures than for others, whether they were of different importance in the focussed countries, and the underlying causes behind all this. The results of the three-year-project will be published as a monograph. These results are also supposed as a foundation for further studies on the settings of supply and demand, on possible transnational interconnections of the authors of etiquette books, the mutual relation of media and social processes as well as similarities and differences of political cultures in a global perspective.

礼仪书籍是1870年至1930年国际图书市场上的一种大众现象。自20世纪70年代以来，这些出版物主要由社会学、民族学和文学研究参与，探讨它们对社会行为规则、阶级和性别角色发展的作用。因此，在社会变革时期寻求指导的某些阶层、年龄和性别群体被确定为礼仪书籍的目标受众，其创作者敏锐地迎合了目标受众的需求。然而，该类型的政治内容仍然被空白。在初步研究中，申请人遵循了这一新方法。第一个结果意味着礼仪书籍服务于意识形态，政治或信仰定义的群体（即。e.作为一种手段，通过采纳和影响他们的态度来获得自信和界定。该项目旨在通过基于长期国际视角进行基础研究并分析大量来源，首次证明这一假设。本文以德国、法国和英国这三个曾经在礼仪文学领域处于领先地位的国家为研究对象。在这样做的过程中，该项目的目的不仅是确定这一流派的一般特征和意义，而且有助于一些新兴的历史研究领域：媒体和政治文化部分之间的关系，以及大众媒体的发展和功能。为此，我们将分析270本礼仪书籍，其中三个国家各有30本出版物，分别出版于1870年至1930年的三个版本，因为这一时期在政治和社会历史方面也具有重要意义。此外，作为一项抽样研究，计划在多达30个出版商的档案，以确定方式书籍的创作者的意图，特别是目标受众的接收。调查的主要主题将是政治（在更广泛的意义上）的维度，礼仪书籍中的声明，因此为读者提供了一个行为准则，读者和书评人如何接受出版物，作者和出版商如何对客户的反馈以及它的转变做出反应。进一步的问题是，礼仪书籍对政治文化的某些部分是否比对其他部分更重要，它们在重点国家的重要性是否不同，以及这一切背后的根本原因。三年期项目的成果将作为专著出版。这些结果也被认为是进一步研究的基础上的供应和需求的设置，在可能的跨国互联的礼仪书籍的作者，媒体和社会过程的相互关系，以及在全球范围内的政治文化的异同。