Download or read book The Making of Modern Romanian Culture written by Alex Drace-Francis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This well-researched and readable book explores the rise of Romanian-language literary, educational and printing institutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, bringing out a story that has not been fully explored in English. In twenty concise yet scholarly chapters, Alex Drace-Francis builds on and engages with current knowledge about print culture, modernization, national identity and state formation, to make an original contribution to ongoing debates in these areas.