It is undisputed that literature developed and changed more rapidly from around 1880 than in the centuries before. "Literature around 1900" offers an introduction to the exciting and diverse period of literary history between 1885 and 1920, shedding light on the literary movements of this time from various perspectives: modern literature from 1885 to 1920, balancing artistic avant-garde and regional art; quick orientation on the main movements through profiles; the transformation of literature in the context of society, new media, natural sciences, philosophy, psychology, and psychoanalysis; thematic fields such as authorship, epistemological optimism, identity and language crisis, new religiosity, and ethnic ideology.