The Making of Modern Romanian Culture: Literacy and the Development of National Identity: v. 41 (International Library of Historical Studies)

Alex Drace-Francis

ISBN 10: 1845110668 / ISBN 13: 9781845110666

Verlag: I.B. Tauris, 2005

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CHL10124484

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This book challenges the notion that Western ideas were essential to Romanian development. It is a fascinating story of how a national culture is born. This book provides a history of the development of literary culture and the printed word in Romania. How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? "The Making of Modern Romanian Culture" examines the development of both a literary tradition and institutions aimed at promoting literacy in Romania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - from Romanians under the control of the Austrian Empire in the eighteenth century to revolt in Romania under Tudor Vladimirescu in 1821 to Carol, the first King of Romania, crowned in 1881. Alex Drace-Francis combines analysis of education systems, book production, and the periodical press with case studies of key thinkers such as Mihai Eminescu, Ion Luca Caragiale and Titu Maiorescu to trace Romania's cultural and literary development. He offers a criticism of the idea that the 'penetration of Western ideas' was essential to modernism to place literacy and identity within both a Romanian and a global context.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Alex Drace-Francis is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Making of Modern Romanian Culture: ...
Verlag: I.B. Tauris
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Used; Very Good