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The Czech Renascence of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Czech Renascence of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Literature and historical writing among the Czechs, as among many
other nations lacking a political state, played a vital role in
promoting national consciousness. This volume, written to honour
the seventieth birthday of the eminent Czech historian Otakar
Odlozik, contains essays by outstanding scholars from Canada,
Czechoslovakia, Britain, and the United States which examine
significant episodes in the development of modern Czech nationalism
from its origins in the late eighteenth century to the birth of an
independent nation after the First World War. The main emphasis is
on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, which were crucial
for mapping the direction Czech nationalism was to take during the
subsequent hundred years. The stand of the Czech and Slovak peoples
in the crisis of August 1968 reflected the deep roots of their
patriotism which developed during the nineteenth-century national
renascence. This volume contains essays on Dobrovsky, the pioneer
of Czech language studies, and on Palacky, the author of the first
great national history, as well as on other facets of literary
history which have influenced national feeling. A Prague scholar
investigates the social structure of the early Czech patriotic
intelligentsia and reaches conclusions which considerably modify
hitherto existing views. Two contributions examine the role of the
press in the emergence of Czech nationalism; the Matice Ceska, a
leading patriotic literary foundation, is the subject of one of the
studies. Slovak and Lusatian Serb, German, and American reaction to
the Czech national renascence is examined in a series of chapters.
The political expression of Czech nationalism, first during the
Year of Revolutions, 1848, and then from the late 1870s until the
early years of the twentieth century, is subjected to analysis in
several studies. Finally, there is a brief review of the problems
associated with the Czech-Slovak background of Tomas Masaryk, the
creator of modern Czechoslovakia. A fitting tribute to an
outstanding scholar, this volume makes an important contribution to
the literature in English on nineteenth-century Czech lands.
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