The Literature of Nationalism concerns literature in its broadest sense and the manner in which, in belles lettres, the oral tradition and journalism, language and literature create national/nationalist myths. It treats East European culture from Finland to 'Yugoslavia', from Bohemia to Romania, from the nineteenth century to today. One third of the book concerns women and ethnic identity, and the rest covers subjects as varied as Bulgarian Fascism and the impact of political change on language in Hungary and ex-Yugoslavia.

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; R.B.Pynsent - The Debate between Tradition and Modernity in the Shaping of a Romanian Identity; D.Deletant - A Nation May Be Said to Live in its Language: Some Socio-Historical Perspectives on Attitudes to Hungarian; P.Sherwood - The Use and Abuse of the Language Argument in Mid-Nineteenth-Century 'Czechoslovalism': An Appraisal on a Propaganda Milestone; D.Short - Stefan Zeromski and the Crisis of Polish Nationalism; S.Eile - The Liberation of Woman and Nation: Czech Nationalism and Women Writers of the Fin de Siecle; R.B.Pynsent - Tin Ujevic and the Yugoslav Idea; D.Puvacic - A Bulgarian Biography of Mussolini; S.I.Kanikova - Migrant Finns' Attitudes to Language and Nationhood; H.Branch - The Palindrome Scandal and the Yugoslav War; C.Hawkesworth - Understanding Ethnic-National Identity in Times of War and Social Change; M.Korac - Constructing the Moral Community: Women's Use of Dream-Narratives in a Russian-Orthodox Karelian Village; L.Stark, I-R.Sarvinen, S.Timonen & T.Utriainen - Index