This collective monography is focused on beginning of modern literatures of south Slavs (Slovenians, Croatians, Serbians, Montenegrians, Bulgarians, Macedonians and Bosnia and Herzegovina), Romanians (Romania, Moldova) and Albanians. Text observes the transit of Late Middle Ages literary style to modern production, from the Enlightenment to preromantism and romantism.
All text is put into broad contexts of this period (19th Century).