Rzeki „historyczne” w geografii mentalnej piętnastolecia pokongresowego (1815-1830)
“Historical” rivers in Polish mental geography during the fifteen-year period following the Congress of Vienna (1815−1830)

Summary/Abstract: In view of the didactic and therapeutic functions of Niemcewicz’s work, all “historical” rivers mentioned in it play the role of the rivers of memory. They are thought of as instruments in remembering the lost homeland, by analogy to the rivers of Babylon, and envisaged as bedrocks of Polish self- -consciousness and identity. The water circulation system in {Śpiewy historyczne} is similar to the images present in other works of the period, e.g. in the works of Staszic, Surowiecki, Woronicz. This idea and image would moreover be useful as a starting point to analyse the biographically and politically important phenomenon of “domestic” river in the works of Mickiewicz and Syrokomla.

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