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This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of
scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering
nineteenth-century Latvian literary history. We are seeking to
pluralize literary history studies by looking for novel insights
into Latvian literature and contributing to the research of
East-Central European literary cultures. Scholars from diverse but
related research fields (literature, history, art history, and
folklore studies) scan the nineteenth-century cultural scene from
various intersecting perspectives, taking into account important
links between literature, oral culture and visual art, changes in
reading practices, periodicals, and the book market as well as the
complex interactions between social transformations and aesthetic
developments.
The Enlightenment of peasants, an 18th-century phenomenon that
originated from an interest in common people and ideas of about the
emancipation of the lower classes, had a crucial impact on creating
Latvian secular literary culture. When Baltic German intellectuals,
inspired by the Popular Enlightenment in German-speaking countries,
undertook the task to educate Latvian peasants through books, they
also laid the foundation for the future emancipation of Latvian
culture. By exploring the nature of book production and changing
images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the second part of
the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, this book offers
insights into the complex historical relationship between Latvians
and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic
Enlightenment.
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