Literature and Nationalism in Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918

by Stanislaw Eile

The selected period of Polish literature is undoubtedly focal in the development of modern nationalism in Poland, as it contains the years of struggle for survival under foreign rule. Romantic poetry and its idea of national messianism is at the core of this study (Mickiewicz, Slowacki, and Krasinski). It considers the role played by the notion of great, pre-partitioned Poland (it had included Lithuania, Belorus, and Ukraine) in the development of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312231598
• ISBN13: 9780312231590
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"