Patrick Eiden-Offe is a permanent research associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin. He has published three books in German, Das Reich der Demokratie. Hermann Brochs “Der Tod des Vergil”, Die Poesie der Klasse and Hegels Logik Lesen, and is currently writing an intellectual biography of Georg Lukács.

• Translator’s NoteIntroduction1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject3 Romantic Anti-capitalism4 Historiography of Rescue5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck’s The Young Master Carpenter2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers’ Movement: Wilhelm Weitling3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions2 ‘We? Tricky Question!’ on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals1 Negations: ‘Bourgeois’ and ‘Intellectual Prolatarians’2 Ascension: ‘We’ Want to Be Bürger3 Activation: What ‘We’ Should Be4 Affirmation: ‘We’ Who Raise Our Voices3 Counting the People: Class Statistics1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke’s ‘Rich and Poor’4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian5 Relentlessness6 Mystères – Misère7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom1 Allegories of Class: ‘Steam King’ and ‘White Slaves’2 Point of Comparison: Weitling’s ‘Politics of Slavery’3 The ‘Semblance of Liberty’ and Real Slavery: Engels4 Class Slavery5 Why ‘White Slaves’?6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique7 The Universality of Proletarianisation6 Representing the ‘Labouring Poor’1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm’s White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage3 The Reporter in the Field: ‘The Great Towns’7 Class in Struggle1 Witches’ Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck2 The Witches’ Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm5 Rescuing the Rebels6 Revenge and Class7 The Machine Breakers8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth’s Fragment of a Novel10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers’ MovementConclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalismEpilogue: Romantic ‘Anti-capitalism’ from AboveBibliographyIndex

Patrick Eiden-Offe is a permanent research associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin. He has published three books in German, Das Reich der Demokratie. Hermann Brochs “Der Tod des Vergil”, Die Poesie der Klasse and Hegels Logik Lesen, and is currently writing an intellectual biography of Georg Lukács.

• Translator’s NoteIntroduction1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject3 Romantic Anti-capitalism4 Historiography of Rescue5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck’s The Young Master Carpenter2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers’ Movement: Wilhelm Weitling3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions2 ‘We? Tricky Question!’ on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals1 Negations: ‘Bourgeois’ and ‘Intellectual Prolatarians’2 Ascension: ‘We’ Want to Be Bürger3 Activation: What ‘We’ Should Be4 Affirmation: ‘We’ Who Raise Our Voices3 Counting the People: Class Statistics1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke’s ‘Rich and Poor’4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian5 Relentlessness6 Mystères – Misère7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom1 Allegories of Class: ‘Steam King’ and ‘White Slaves’2 Point of Comparison: Weitling’s ‘Politics of Slavery’3 The ‘Semblance of Liberty’ and Real Slavery: Engels4 Class Slavery5 Why ‘White Slaves’?6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique7 The Universality of Proletarianisation6 Representing the ‘Labouring Poor’1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm’s White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage3 The Reporter in the Field: ‘The Great Towns’7 Class in Struggle1 Witches’ Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck2 The Witches’ Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm5 Rescuing the Rebels6 Revenge and Class7 The Machine Breakers8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth’s Fragment of a Novel10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers’ MovementConclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalismEpilogue: Romantic ‘Anti-capitalism’ from AboveBibliographyIndex

Patrick Eiden-Offe is a permanent research associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin. He has published three books in German, Das Reich der Demokratie. Hermann Brochs “Der Tod des Vergil”, Die Poesie der Klasse and Hegels Logik Lesen, and is currently writing an intellectual biography of Georg Lukács.

• Translator’s NoteIntroduction1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject3 Romantic Anti-capitalism4 Historiography of Rescue5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck’s The Young Master Carpenter2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers’ Movement: Wilhelm Weitling3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions2 ‘We? Tricky Question!’ on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals1 Negations: ‘Bourgeois’ and ‘Intellectual Prolatarians’2 Ascension: ‘We’ Want to Be Bürger3 Activation: What ‘We’ Should Be4 Affirmation: ‘We’ Who Raise Our Voices3 Counting the People: Class Statistics1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke’s ‘Rich and Poor’4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian5 Relentlessness6 Mystères – Misère7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom1 Allegories of Class: ‘Steam King’ and ‘White Slaves’2 Point of Comparison: Weitling’s ‘Politics of Slavery’3 The ‘Semblance of Liberty’ and Real Slavery: Engels4 Class Slavery5 Why ‘White Slaves’?6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique7 The Universality of Proletarianisation6 Representing the ‘Labouring Poor’1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm’s White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage3 The Reporter in the Field: ‘The Great Towns’7 Class in Struggle1 Witches’ Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck2 The Witches’ Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm5 Rescuing the Rebels6 Revenge and Class7 The Machine Breakers8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth’s Fragment of a Novel10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers’ MovementConclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalismEpilogue: Romantic ‘Anti-capitalism’ from AboveBibliographyIndex