Description
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.
Chapter
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