{"product_id":"making-of-modern-romanian-culture-alex-drace-francis-9781845110666","title":"Making of Modern Romanian Culture: Literacy and the Development of National Identity","description":"This book challenges the notion that Western ideas were essential to Romanian development. It is a fascinating story of how a national culture is born. This book provides a history of the development of literary culture and the printed word in Romania. How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? \"The Making of Modern Romanian Culture\" examines the development of both a literary tradition and institutions aimed at promoting literacy in Romania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - from Romanians under the control of the Austrian Empire in the eighteenth century to revolt in Romania under Tudor Vladimirescu in 1821 to Carol, the first King of Romania, crowned in 1881. Alex Drace-Francis combines analysis of education systems, book production, and the periodical press with case studies of key thinkers such as Mihai Eminescu, Ion Luca Caragiale and Titu Maiorescu to trace Romania's cultural and literary development. He offers a criticism of the idea that the 'penetration of Western ideas' was essential to modernism to place literacy and identity within both a Romanian and a global context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Drace-Francis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845110668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845110666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.52w x 0.94d","brand":"Alex Drace-Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088876024063,"sku":"9781845110666","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a55785a2-5ebe-46be-accc-6eb03fd556ed.jpg?v=1769107029","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-of-modern-romanian-culture-alex-drace-francis-9781845110666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}