The Czech Renascence of the Nineteenth Century / / ed. by Peter Brock, H. Gordon Skilling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Auty, Robert,; Brock, Peter,; Erickson, John,; Harkins, William E.,; Heymann, Frederick G.,; Hroch, Miroslav,; Kimball, Stanley B.,; Kimmel, Barbara Kohák,; Loewenheim, Francis L.,; Marzik, Thomas D.,; Pech, Stanley Z.,; Pešek, Thomas G.,; Polišenský, Josef V.,; Skilling, H. Gordon,; Součková, Milada,; Winters, Stanley B.,; Zacek, Joseph F.,
• HerausgeberIn: Brock, Peter,; Skilling, H. Gordon,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1970
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)

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 Odlo?ík, 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 Dobrovský, the pioneer of Czech language studies, and on Palacký, 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 Ceskà, 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 Tomá? 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. The Periodization of Czech Literary History, 1774-1879 -- 2. Changing Views on the Role of Dobrovský in the Czech National Revival -- 3. Locus Amoenus: An Aspect of National Tradition -- 4. The Social Composition of the Czech Patriots in Bohemia, 1827-1848 -- 5. The Matice Česká, 1831-1861: The First Thirty Years of a Literary Foundation -- 6. Jan Ernst Smoler and the Czech and Slovak Awakeners: A Study in Slav Reciprocity -- 7. Metternich's Censors: The Case of Palacký -- 8. Karel Havlíček and the Czech Press before 1848 -- 9. The "Czechoslovak" Question on the Eve of the 1848 Revolution -- 10. German Liberalism and the Czech Renascence: Ignaz Kuranda, Die Grenzboten, and Developments in Bohemia, 1845-1849 -- 11. The Preparatory Committee of the Slav Congress, April-May 1848 -- 12. The Czechs and the Imperial Parliament in 1848-1849 -- 13. America and the Beginnings of Modern Czech Political Thought -- 14. The Hussite Movement in the Historiography of the Czech Awakening -- 15. Masaryk's National Background -- 16. The Politics of the Czech Eighties -- 17. Kramář, Kaizl, and the Hegemony of the Young Czech Party, 1891-1901 -- Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Otakar Odložilík -- Index