Beauté, vérité et forme L’idéalisme entre autres courants dans les débats littéraires lettons du xix^e siècle

This article capitalises on and contributes to the evaluation of aesthetic idealism in literary theory and practice. Delving into the debates on idealism carried out in Latvian periodicals between the 1850s and 1890s, it focuses on the reception of German and French eighteenth- and nineteenth-century aesthetic ideas and traces their impact during the rise of Latvian national literature in the second half of the nineteenth century as well as the relation of idealism to other major literary trends of the period.