Description
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how Jansenism was transmitted into Central European literatures and how it shaped the concept of literature in the region. It investigates how and through which translators, publishers and patrons Jansenist ideas, texts and readings arrived in this area; how, to what extent, in what form and with what transfers these ideas impacted literature. The authors connect research methodologies that have traditionally been used separately from each other. Another objective is to systematize and critically evaluate earlier results while also revealing new sources. The volume puts moralist and anthropological discourses of Jansenist influence into a new perspective, with an emphasis on their links to literary and cultural history, aesthetics and the history of ideas.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jansenisms and Literature in Central Europe – A Research Task – I Regional Scope and Continuity of the Jansenist Discourse / Regionale Reichweiten und Kontinuitäten des jansenistischen Diskurses / Portée régionale et continuité du discours janséniste – II Ferenc Rákóczi II Jansenist? / Ferenc Rákóczi II. Jansenist? / François II Rákóczi janséniste ? – III Jansenist Book Holdings / Jansenistische Buchbestände / Collections de livres
