Jürgen Barkhoff is Professor of German and Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer of the University of Dublin. His main research is on literary anthropology, question of identity in Europe and Swiss literature.Joep Leerssen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Ansterdam and part-time research professor at the University of Maastricht. His research focuses on national stereotyping and the comparative and cultural history of national thought and national movements in Europe.

• Notes on ContributorsList of Figures and TablesIntroductionJürgen Barkhoff and Joep LeerssenPART 1: History and Identity Politics1 Confronting the Other/Perceiving the SelfNational Historiographies and National Stereotypes in Twentieth-Century EuropeStefan Berger2 Claiming a Great Ancient Imperial Past as an Identity Element of a Small Modern NationThe Case of LithuaniaZenonas Norkus and Aelita Ambruleviit3 The Longue durée of BrexitPolitics, Literature and the British PastDaniel CareyPART 2: Identity Politics of the Neo-Right4 From Identity Politics to the Identitarian MovementThe Europeanisation of Cultural Stereotypes?Karel Šima5 Re/nationalising EU-ropeNational Identities, Right-Wing Populism, and Border- and Body-PoliticsRuth WodakPART 3: Strategies of Othering6 The Camp and the HomeEurope as Myth and MetaphorJoep Leerssen7 The EU and the East-West ParadoxThe Case of Greece and TurkeyHercules Millas8 The Image of the WallThe Antemurale Christianitatis Myth from an Imagological ­PerspectiveZrinka BlaževiPART 4: Stereotyping in the Media9 Prime Time NationalismPatterns of Prejudice in tv Crime FictionWulf Kansteiner10 Stereotyping by Default in Media TransferLuc van Doorslaer11 The Image of Spain in the Eyes of Austrian, Flemish, French, Italian, Polish and Bulgarian Facebook UsersText-Linguistic Opinion-Mining for Detecting and Analysing National StereotypesRaúl Sánchez PrietoPART 5: The Economic Crisis in Literature12 Resilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from SpainAna María Fraile13 Virtually ThereSpectral Ireland and European Stereotypes in the Novels of Paul MurrayAidan O’MalleyIndex

Jürgen Barkhoff is Professor of German and Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer of the University of Dublin. His main research is on literary anthropology, question of identity in Europe and Swiss literature.Joep Leerssen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Ansterdam and part-time research professor at the University of Maastricht. His research focuses on national stereotyping and the comparative and cultural history of national thought and national movements in Europe.

• Notes on ContributorsList of Figures and TablesIntroductionJürgen Barkhoff and Joep LeerssenPART 1: History and Identity Politics1 Confronting the Other/Perceiving the SelfNational Historiographies and National Stereotypes in Twentieth-Century EuropeStefan Berger2 Claiming a Great Ancient Imperial Past as an Identity Element of a Small Modern NationThe Case of LithuaniaZenonas Norkus and Aelita Ambruleviit3 The Longue durée of BrexitPolitics, Literature and the British PastDaniel CareyPART 2: Identity Politics of the Neo-Right4 From Identity Politics to the Identitarian MovementThe Europeanisation of Cultural Stereotypes?Karel Šima5 Re/nationalising EU-ropeNational Identities, Right-Wing Populism, and Border- and Body-PoliticsRuth WodakPART 3: Strategies of Othering6 The Camp and the HomeEurope as Myth and MetaphorJoep Leerssen7 The EU and the East-West ParadoxThe Case of Greece and TurkeyHercules Millas8 The Image of the WallThe Antemurale Christianitatis Myth from an Imagological ­PerspectiveZrinka BlaževiPART 4: Stereotyping in the Media9 Prime Time NationalismPatterns of Prejudice in tv Crime FictionWulf Kansteiner10 Stereotyping by Default in Media TransferLuc van Doorslaer11 The Image of Spain in the Eyes of Austrian, Flemish, French, Italian, Polish and Bulgarian Facebook UsersText-Linguistic Opinion-Mining for Detecting and Analysing National StereotypesRaúl Sánchez PrietoPART 5: The Economic Crisis in Literature12 Resilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from SpainAna María Fraile13 Virtually ThereSpectral Ireland and European Stereotypes in the Novels of Paul MurrayAidan O’MalleyIndex

Jürgen Barkhoff is Professor of German and Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer of the University of Dublin. His main research is on literary anthropology, question of identity in Europe and Swiss literature.Joep Leerssen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Ansterdam and part-time research professor at the University of Maastricht. His research focuses on national stereotyping and the comparative and cultural history of national thought and national movements in Europe.

• Notes on ContributorsList of Figures and TablesIntroductionJürgen Barkhoff and Joep LeerssenPART 1: History and Identity Politics1 Confronting the Other/Perceiving the SelfNational Historiographies and National Stereotypes in Twentieth-Century EuropeStefan Berger2 Claiming a Great Ancient Imperial Past as an Identity Element of a Small Modern NationThe Case of LithuaniaZenonas Norkus and Aelita Ambruleviit3 The Longue durée of BrexitPolitics, Literature and the British PastDaniel CareyPART 2: Identity Politics of the Neo-Right4 From Identity Politics to the Identitarian MovementThe Europeanisation of Cultural Stereotypes?Karel Šima5 Re/nationalising EU-ropeNational Identities, Right-Wing Populism, and Border- and Body-PoliticsRuth WodakPART 3: Strategies of Othering6 The Camp and the HomeEurope as Myth and MetaphorJoep Leerssen7 The EU and the East-West ParadoxThe Case of Greece and TurkeyHercules Millas8 The Image of the WallThe Antemurale Christianitatis Myth from an Imagological ­PerspectiveZrinka BlaževiPART 4: Stereotyping in the Media9 Prime Time NationalismPatterns of Prejudice in tv Crime FictionWulf Kansteiner10 Stereotyping by Default in Media TransferLuc van Doorslaer11 The Image of Spain in the Eyes of Austrian, Flemish, French, Italian, Polish and Bulgarian Facebook UsersText-Linguistic Opinion-Mining for Detecting and Analysing National StereotypesRaúl Sánchez PrietoPART 5: The Economic Crisis in Literature12 Resilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from SpainAna María Fraile13 Virtually ThereSpectral Ireland and European Stereotypes in the Novels of Paul MurrayAidan O’MalleyIndex