Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture

How does literature function in the formation of a nation-state?  What are its pivotal contributions to national discourse and the production of ideological collective will?  And, ultimately, how is literature institutionalized and aestheticized? Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature addresses these questions and considers the role literature plays in the construction of a national cultural.  Gregory Jusdanis examines the emergence of art and liter