This volume explores how Jansenism was transmitted into Central European literatures and how it shaped the concept of literature in the region. It investigates how and through which translators, publishers and patrons Jansenist ideas, texts and readings arrived in this area; how, to what extent, in what form and with what transfers these ideas impacted literature. The authors connect research methodologies that have traditionally been used separately from each other. Another objective is to systematize and critically evaluate earlier results while also revealing new sources. The volume puts moralist and anthropological discourses of Jansenist influence into a new perspective, with an emphasis on their links to literary and cultural history, aesthetics and the history of ideas.

Gábor Tüskés is professor, scientific advisor and head of the Department for the 18th century, Institute for Literary Studies, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest. Christoph Schmitt-Maaß obtained his PhD at Basel and his Habilitation at Potsdam. He was awarded numerous research fellowships at Weimar, Wolfenbüttel, Marbach and Munich and has been a Humboldt fellow at Oxford and Princeton. He currently acts as German tutor and fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. Michel Marty is editor of the series Littérature of the collection Bibliothèque d'études de l'Europe centrale at Éditions Honoré Champion, Paris.