Abstract
This article analyses the divergent traditional stereotypes of Poland—the ‘Sarmatic’ and the ‘Messianic’—in Bettina von Arnim’s Gespräche mit Dämonen (1852). Her very positive view of Poland coincides with deep-rooted Polish self-images, but depoliticises them into something genuinely poetic.
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