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As the era of nationalism began, Slavs in the Habsburg Empire espoused Panslavism, which they imagined as a linguistic community arising because all Slavs spoke the same “Slavic language.” Efforts to promote this language, and the distinct literary traditions it encompassed, rested on the unstated assumption that a single “language” may contain multiple literary traditions, imagined as “dialectical” yet written in distinct orthographies. This paper examines literary Panslavism as a form of nationalist politics, specifically considering the figures of Jan Herkel, Jan Kollár, Ljudovit Gaj, and Ľudovít Štúr. It suggests that literary Panslavism affected subsequent Czechoslovak and Yugoslav nationalism, both of which similarly posited a single language with multiple literary traditions.
Alexander Maxwell studied in Davis, Göttingen, Brno, Bloomington, and Budapest before completing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He held short-term positions in Erfurt, Swansea, Reno, and Bucharest before settling in New Zealand. He is now associate professor of history at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of "Choosing Slovakia", "Patriots Against Fashion", and "Everyday Nationalism in Hungary". He has guest edited themed issues of "Nationalities Papers", "Nationalism and Ethnic Politics", "German Studies Review", the "New Zealand Slavonic Journal", and the "Journal of Nationalism, Memory, and Language Politics". He is currently researching Habsburg Panslavism and the language/dialect dichotomy.
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