Download or read book Literature and Nationalism in Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 written by S. Eile and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-07-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selected period of Polish literature is undoubtedly focal in the development of modern nationalism in Poland, as it contains the years of struggle for survival under foreign rule. Romantic poetry and its idea of national messianism is at the core of this study (Mickiewicz, Slowacki and Krasinski). It considers the role played by the notion of great, pre-partitioned Poland (it had included Lithuania, Belorus and Ukraine) in the development of the idea of 'Polishness' in the course of the nineteenth century. The role of history, religion, national uprisings and old `Samaritan' culture form other points of interest.