The ‘Popular of the Others'. The Vulgar Between Normativity and Attribution (C03)

• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

The sub-project consists of two work areas. AB I The Dissolution of the Boundaries of the Vulgar. The establishment of high-low axiology in the long 19th century is supervised by the PI and deals with the phenomenon of the vulgar under the auspices of aesthetic and discourse history over the period of the long 19th century. AB II Hedwig Dohm. The Emancipation of the Low and Vulgar is being worked on by a doctoral student and focuses on the problematisation and functionalisation of the vulgar in the decades around 1900 in the feuilletonistic and literary work of the (proto-)feminist and women’s rights activist Hedwig Dohm.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Michael Multhammer