Neptun die Arme abgeschlagen . . . Die literarische Entmythologisierung der freien Handelsstadt im frühen 18. Jahrhundert. (German)

The essay examines the literary representation of towns in the 17 th and 18 th centuries. In the dramatic poetry of the 17 th century, the leadership of autonomous German and Dutch trade towns was extensively praised within the context of the mythos of the city blessed with everlasting prosperity by God. In the early 18 th century, new forms of trade increasingly undermined the social and economic security of the municipal patriciate. The essay outlines conservative reflexes of the endangered urban elites by examining dramatic texts from Amsterdam and Hamburg, in which the territorially defined source of solidarity of the town was no longer employed as a dramatic frame of action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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