Schrijverschap in de Belgische belle époque. Een sociaal-culturele geschiedenis
Author(s)
Verbruggen, Christophe
Language
Dutch; FlemishAbstract
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.
Keywords
literaire instituten; belle epoque; literary sociability; social network analysis; belgische literatuur; literary institutions; literaire gezelligheid; sociaal netwerk analyse; belgian literatureDOI
10.26530/OAPEN_365910ISBN
9789460040399OCN
808385143Publisher
Academia Press / VantiltPublication date and place
Gent; Nijmegen, 2009Imprint
GinkgoClassification
Belgium
Flemish
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
For adult emergent readers
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000