Between the Individual and the Collective: The Poetics of Romantic Croatian Travel Literature Using Antun Nemčić Gostovinski and Stanko Vraz as Case Studies

Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković
a b s t r a c t
As was the case elsewhere in Europe, Croatian travel literature began to flourish in the Romantic period.[1] This being said, if we compare the situation in Croatia to its counterparts in Western Europe or even Poland and Slovakia, where “Dark Romanticism”[2] and the uncanny[3] were the dominating motifs, then the Croatian case is somewhat distinct.
(...)