Literature and Nationalism in Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918

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 the idea of "Polishness" in the course of the nineteenth century.

Author: S. Eile
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/28/2000
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.69w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780312231590

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2001 pg. 1088

About the Author
Stanislaw Eile is Professor of Polish Literature at the University of London.