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Politics and Policies in Literary Historiography During the Periods of “Disobedience” (1963–1969) and “Normalization” (1969–1989)
The latter half of the 1960s was characterized by a slow but steady liberalization of the Czechoslovak society, culture and scholarship, culminating...
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Literary History Since 1989: Directions, Attempts at Synthesis, Challenges
The year 1989 marked a change in the political system of Czechoslovakia, as in all countries behind the Iron Curtain. Many prominent individuals who...
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Celebrating Finland: Laitinen’s Literary History
In 1967, when Finland was celebrating fifty years of independence, a new, concise literary history by Kai Laitinen was published. The work covers the...
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Literary Histories from Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century: The Viewpoint of Nationalism
Literature created in Finland is of relatively late origin. Only from the nineteenth century onward can we speak of a thriving Finnish literature,...
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Academy of Sciences: Definitive Literary History
Among the three major types of literary histories in Russia, the Academy history traditionally occupies a special place as a “definitive” voice and a...
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Latvian Literary Histories from 1812 to 1940: Popular Enlightenment, Romantic Nationalism, and Political Independence
After the publication of the first Latvian-language texts in the sixteenth century, the literary process long continued to develop without the...
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Swedish-Language Literature in Finland: From a National to a Minority Literature
Along with literature written in Finnish, that written in Swedish has always played a major role in the literature of the country; indeed, down till...
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In Defense of Poesy: Hallila’s Survey of Contemporary Finnish Literature
Somewhat surprisingly, the Varpio literary history did not evoke any public discussion concerning the principles of literary historiography. This may...
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Textbooks in Literary History
Literary history textbooks for secondary and upper secondary schools have always been intertwined not only with the development of literary history...
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Introduction: An Outline of the Political and Cultural Development of Latvia
In Part 2, we trace the main trends occurring in Latvian literary histories. The first books in the Latvian language were printed in the sixteenth...
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The First Czechoslovak Republic: Literary Historiography 1918–1939
World War I not only changed the political map of Europe, but also unsettled or totally shattered many of the structures of prewar societies. As...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter considers first how the study of sensation fiction and modernity has narrowly conceived of that term, centring these...
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Conclusion
This concluding chapter re-evaluates the opening example of Thomas Hardy’s A Laodicean in light of the study’s findings. It ventures that the...
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Dreams of Transparency: M. E. Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent
This chapter examines the depiction of visuality in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s first novel The Trail of the Serpent (1860). It begins by outlining how...
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Lies and Imagination: Precocity in Children’s Literature
In this chapter, I argue, first, that in key contributions to scientific Child Study precocity is vilified to an extent that exceeds all but the most...
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May Sinclair and Two Sides of Sacrifice
This chapter analyses the narration in relation to sacrifice in two experimental works by May Sinclair: Mary Olivier: A Life (1919) and Life and...
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Matilde Serao, Flânerie, and Women in Urban Spaces
Focusing on the early years of Matilde Serao’s career in Rome (1882–1887), this chapter examines issues of women’s exclusion from public discourse...
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Solitary Confinement in Rachilde’s La Tour d’amour: Dehumanization and Madness of the Buried Alive
In La Tour d’amour (1899), Rachilde imagines the secluded life of Mathurin Barnabas and Jean Maleux, two lighthouse keepers trapped in the Ar-Men...
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Epistolary and Commodity Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Argentina, or Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville’s Agency
Sánchez de Mendeville’s life was profoundly meshed into the fabric of Argentina’s early republic. Her tertulias gathered the most important voices of...
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Women Worthies? Ascriptions of Masculinity to Exceptional Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy
Biographical writing in the early nineteenth century offers a window onto the malleability of gender norms for Italian women in the period. In the...