La Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona al segle XVIII: l'interès per la història, la llengua i la literatura catalanes

Abstract

The Barcelona Royal Academy of Literature was originally born as a social gathering of well-known persons among the nobility and the local writers. Later on it developed into the setting or the starting point for many of the best scholars of the 18th Century. The Academy received and admitted many projects whose successful completion would have boosted the Catalan culture. This doctoral dissertation, The Barcelona Royal Academy of Literature during the 18th Century: A taste for catalan history, language and literature, offers first of all a summary of all academic activities during the first century of the Academys existence. In an atmosphere of interest in Catalan culture in all its various aspects: the important historiographical task performed by the Academy (which has often been neglected until now); the different initiatives for the study of the catalan language as well as its use among the academic fellow members and their contribution to literature itself. This dissertation also deals with the internal mechanisms of Academys corporate life and with its cultural, social, historical, literary and linguistic importance in Barcelona and in Catalonia at that time.