A New History of Latvian Literature

The Long Nineteenth Century

Pauls Daija, Benedikts Kalnacs, Ryszard Nycz

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783631862025
• eBook ISBN: 9783631856246
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Crítica literaria para escritoras

This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian literary history. We are seeking to pluralize literary history studies by looking for novel insights into Latvian literature and contributing to the research of East-Central European literary cultures. Scholars from diverse but related research fields (literature, history, art history, and folklore studies) scan the nineteenth-century cultural scene from various intersecting perspectives, taking into account important links between literature, oral culture and visual art, changes in reading practices, periodicals, and the book market as well as the complex interactions between social transformations and aesthetic developments.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Information
• Copyright Information
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction (Pauls Daija, Benedikts Kalnačs)
• Part I From the Established Hierarchies of the Popular Enlightenment to the Hybridity of Cultural Communication: Learned Societies, Media, and the Changing Practices of Everyday Life
• Part II The Highly Praised Rise of Agency and its Fallacies: The Latvian National Movement and Shifting Patterns in Society and Literary Culture
• Part III On the Threshold of Modernity: Literary Culture of the Fin de Siècle and Its Reception
• The Historical Timeline
• Index of Names
• Series index