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This book studies literary sociability during the belle époque (1890-1914) by comparing and relating organizations of authors with intellectual sociability in general. Drawing on a combination of methods including social network analysis, existing histories of Dutch and French speaking literature are questioned. This study shows, for instance, how author’s societies and literary journals were functional in the symbolic struggle between ‘dilettante’ writers on the one hand and self declared ‘professional’ authors on the other. It concludes that Belgian authorship was shaped within a social space that was much broader than the national social space, especially as far as the social construction of the Belgian author-intellectual was concerned. As such, being an intellectual became an important category of personal identity.

Belgian literature --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French Literature --- History and criticism. --- Littérature belge --- --Écrivain --- --Littérature néerlandaise --- --Périodiques littéraires flamands --- --Périodiques belges --- --Histoire sociale --- --Belgian literature --- History and criticism --- Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs --- Handboeken en inleidingen. --- literaire instituten --- belle epoque --- literary sociability --- social network analysis --- belgische literatuur --- literary institutions --- literaire gezelligheid --- sociaal netwerk analyse --- belgian literature --- Écrivain --- Littérature néerlandaise --- Périodiques littéraires flamands --- Périodiques belges --- Histoire sociale