Creating the Nation: Identity and Aesthetics in Early Nineteenth-Century

by David L. Cooper

Offering an incisive new study of literature and nationalism, Cooper examines fundamental developments in Russian and Czech literature and criticism from 1800 to 1830, a period that has largely been neglected in the English-language scholarship.

While other books have focused on the question of why developing nations look to literature as a source of national identity, Cooper asks why ideas of nationality were necessary for critics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875804209
• ISBN13: 9780875804200
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher