Historická imaginace a historický román pozdního osvícenství
The historical imagination and the historical novel in the late Enlightenment

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the beginnings of historical prose and its share in the emergence of modern historical thought. It surveys the origins of historicism as a distinctive approach towards the past, which experienced its heyday in the 19th century and which to this day still exercises some influence on our historical thinking. Whereas the first part of this exposition focuses on charting the output and transfer of new narrative techniques, the second part focuses on the internal operation of these texts and the implications arising out of the rhetoric involved for the reader. Hence the exposition surveys both questions regarding the cultural transfer of the emerging vernacular literature at the end of the 18th century and with the help of media theorists such as Friedrich Kittler it seeks answers to media theory issues surrounding the representation of the past.

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