New History of Latvian Literature

Pauls Daija, PhD., is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia. His research focuses on the history of the 18th and 19th century Latvian and Baltic German literary cultures and the history of Baltic Enlightenment.Benedikts Kalnačs, PhD., is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, UL. His principal research areas include 19th and 20th century Latvian literature, comparative literature, and postcolonial studies.

• From the Established Hierarchies of the Popular Enlightenment to the Hybridity of Cultural Communication: Learned Societies, Media, and the Changing Practices of the Everyday Life – The Highly Praised Rise of Agency and its Fallacies: the Latvian National Movement and Shifting Patterns in Society and Literary Culture – On the Threshold of Modernity: Literary Culture of the Fin de siècle and Its Reception