Nationalism before the Nation State

Dagmar Paulus, Ph.D (2013), is a Senior Teaching Fellow in German Studies at University College London, UK. Her first book, Abgesang auf den Helden: Geschichte und Gedächtnispolitik in Wilhelm Raabes historischem Erzählen, was published in 2014.Ellen Pilsworth, Ph.D. (2017), is Lecturer in German and Translation at the University of Reading. She has published several articles on eighteenth-century German poetry.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Nationalism before the Nation StateDagmar Paulus and Ellen PilsworthPart 1: Eighteenth-Century Debates and Dilemmas1 Johann Joachim Spalding’s 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth: Church Prayers (Kirchengebete), War Prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the Patriotic and National Discourse in late Eighteenth-Century GermanyJohannes Birgfeld2 Enlightenment Dilemmas: Nationalism and War in Rudolph Zacharias Becker’s Mildheimisches Liederbuch (1799/1815)Ellen PilsworthPart 2: Germany and “Other” Stories: Defining the Nation from Outside3 “No sensuous requirement that might not be satisfied here to surfeit”: Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Schlegel Constructing the German Nation in ParisCaroline Mannweiler4 Femininity, Nation and Nature: Fanny Tarnow’s Letters to Friends from a Journey to Petersburg (1819)Dagmar PaulusPart 3: German-Jewish Voices in the Nationalism Debate5 Jews for Germany: Nineteenth-Century Jewish-German Intellectuals and the Shaping of German National DiscourseAnita Bunyan6 Moses Hess: One Socialist Proto-Zionist’s Reception of Nationalisms in the Nineteenth CenturyAlex MarshallPart 4: Looking Back, Looking Forwards: Nineteenth Century Contests of Memory and Progress7 Nationalism, Regionalism, and Liberalism in the Literary Representation of the Anti-Napoleonic “Wars of Liberation,” 1813–71Dirk Göttsche8 Learning from France: Ludwig Börne in the 1830sErnest SchonfieldIndex