Diktning för tillfället

• Occasional verse and orations in separately printed leaflets at funerals, weddings and other celebrations was the dominant vehicle for literary production in Sweden in the 17th and 18th centuries. It honoured the recipients and promoted the authors. This aspect of print culture in the Swedish Age of Greatness is here summarized.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

eighteenth century literature

Occasional poetry

epideictic rhetoric

ceremonies

print culture

printing history

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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