UID:
edoccha_9958059498502883
Format:
1 online resource (413 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789460040399
Uniform Title:
Sociale geschiedenis van het schrijverschap tijdens de Belgische belle époque
Content:
This book studies literary sociability during the belle époque (1890-1914) by comparing and relating organizations of authors with intellectual sociability in general. Drawing on a combination of methods including social network analysis, existing histories of Dutch and French speaking literature are questioned. This study shows, for instance, how author’s societies and literary journals were functional in the symbolic struggle between ‘dilettante’ writers on the one hand and self declared ‘professional’ authors on the other. It concludes that Belgian authorship was shaped within a social space that was much broader than the national social space, especially as far as the social construction of the Belgian author-intellectual was concerned. As such, being an intellectual became an important category of personal identity.
Note:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Universiteit Gent) under the title: Een sociale geschiedenis van het schrijverschap tijdens de Belgische belle époque.
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Also available in print form.
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Dutch
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9789038213804
Language:
Dutch