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Record Nr.

UNISA996201667703316

Autore

Verbruggen Christophe

Titolo

Schrijverschap in de Belgische belle époque : een sociaal-culturele geschiedenis / / Christophe Verbruggen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gent; Nijmegen, : Academia Press / Vantilt, 2009

Nijmegen, Netherlands : , : Vantilt, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

9789460040399

9789038213804

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Belgian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Belgian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Universiteit Gent) under the title: Een sociale geschiedenis van het schrijverschap tijdens de Belgische belle époque.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-402) and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

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.