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Northern Myths, Modern Identities
The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 1800
Av Simon Halink
Inbunden, 2019
2012 kr
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This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths …
Free Access to the Past
Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation
Inbunden, 2010
2472 kr
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Throughout Europe, nostalgia and modernization embraced around 1800: the rise of historicism coincided with the emergence of the modern nation-state. Poetical, cultural changes intersected with political, institutional ones: a Romantic taste for medieval or tribal antiquity benefited from a …
Inventing Luxembourg
Representations of the Past, Space and Language from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Av Pit Péporté, Sonja Kmec m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1009 kr
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The grand duchy of Luxembourg was created after the Napoleonic Wars, but at the time there was no 'nation' that identified with the emergent state. This book analyses how politicians, scholars and artists have initiated and contributed to nation-building processes in Luxembourg since the nineteenth …
"Was deutsch und echt..."
Richard Wagner and the Articulation of a German Opera, 1798-1876
Inbunden, 2019
2104 kr
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By examining theoretical debates about the nature of nineteenth-century German opera and analyzing the genre’s development and its international dissemination, this book shows German opera’s entanglement with national identity formation. The thorough study of German opera debates in the first half …
Constructing the Middle Ages
Historiography, Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Luxembourg
Av Pit Péporté
Inbunden, 2011
1408 kr
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Recognising the importance of the Middle Ages as a vital point of reference in the construction of national identities, this challenging book examines the remarkable role played by the period in the grand duchy of Luxembourg. This country is representative of the close relationship between …
Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2012
3090 kr
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The growth of nations, national ideologies and the accompanying quest for the ‘authentic’ among ‘the people’ has been a subject of enquiry for many disciplines. Building upon wide-ranging scholarship, this interdisciplinary study seeks to analyse the place of folklore in the long nineteenth century …
Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries
Inbunden, 2012
2647 kr
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The nineteenth century laid the foundations of history as a professional discipline but also popularized and romanticized the subject. National histories were written and state museums founded, while collective memories were created in fiction and drama, art and architecture and through the growth …
Manufacturing Middle Ages
Entangled History of Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Inbunden, 2013
2902 kr
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Across the nineteenth century European history, philology, archaeology, art, and architecture turned from a common classical vocabulary and ideology to images of pasts and origins drawn primarily from the Middle Ages. The result was a paradox, as scholars and artists, schooled in the same …
Manufacturing a Past for the Present
Forgery and Authenticity in Medievalist Texts and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Av János M. Bak
Inbunden, 2014
2673 kr
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In search of specific national traditions nineteenth-century artists and scholars did not shy of manipulating texts and objects or even outright manufacturing them. The essays edited by János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay explore the various artifacts from outright forgeries to …
Stepbrothers: Southern Dutch Literature and Nation-Building under Willem I, 1814-1834
Inbunden, 2014
2843 kr
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The United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-1830) was a creation of the Congress of Vienna, where the map of Europe was redrawn following Napoleon’s defeat. Dutch language and literature were considered the essential tools to smoothly fuse the North and South – today, the Netherlands and Belgium …
Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories in a Multiethnic Province, 1790–1918
Inbunden, 2015
2418 kr
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Exploring Transylvania by Török reconstructs the fissured scholarly landscape in one of the most culturally heterogeneous regions of the Habsburg Monarchy. The author creates an original model of the structure and historical dynamics of an East-Central European province in the republic of letters …
Harp and the Constitution
Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin
Inbunden, 2015
2340 kr
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‘Celtic’ and ‘Gothic’: both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. ‘Celtic’ is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and spirituality; ‘Gothic’ with medieval cathedrals, rock bands, and horror fiction. The eleven essays collected together here chart some of the curious …
National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe
Av Marijan Dović, Jón Karl Helgason
Inbunden, 2016
2401 kr
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In National Poets, Cultural Saints Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason explore the ways in which certain artists, writers, and poets in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory, emulating the symbolic role formerly played by state rulers and religious saints. The authors develop the …
Persistence of Voice: Instrumental Music and Romantic Orality
Inbunden, 2017
2358 kr
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This work, completed by Neubauer on the very eve of his death in 2015, complements both his benchmark The Emancipation of Music from Language (Yale UP, 1986) and his History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe (John Benjamins, 2004-10). It thematizes Romantic interest in oral speech, …
Staging the Nation: Opera and Nationalism in 19th-Century Hungary
Inbunden, 2018
1828 kr
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Opera was a prominent political forum and a potent force for nineteenth-century nationalism. As one of the most popular forms of entertainment, opera could mobilize large crowds and became the locus of ideological debates about nation-building. Despite its crucial role in national movements, opera …
Great Immortality
Studies on European Cultural Sainthood
Inbunden, 2019
2757 kr
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Winner of the Excellence Award for Collaborative Research granted by the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL)In Great Immortality, twenty scholars from considerably different cultural backgrounds explore the ways in which certain poets, writers, and artists in Europe have become major …
Nationalism before the Nation State
Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756–1871)
Inbunden, 2020
1944 kr
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Long before it took political shape in the proclamation of the German Empire of 1871, a German nation-state had taken shape in the cultural imagination. Covering the period from the Seven Years’ War to the Reichsgründung of 1871, Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructions of …
Militant Middle Ages
Contemporary Politics between New Barbarians and Modern Crusaders
Av Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri
Inbunden, 2019
2642 kr
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In The Militant Middle Ages, historian Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri delves into common perceptions of the Middle Ages and how these views shape contemporary political contexts. Today more than ever, the medieval era is mined from across the political spectrum for symbols, examples, allegories, …
Antiquarians of the Nation
Monuments and Language in Nineteenth-Century Roussillon
Inbunden, 2019
2338 kr
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In the nineteenth century, the search for the artistic, architectural and written monuments promoted by the French State with the aim to build a unified nation transcending regional specificities, also fostered the development of local or regional identitary consciousness. In Roussillon, this …
Literary Canon Formation as Nation-Building in Central Europe and the Baltics
19th to Early 20th Century
Inbunden, 2021
2096 kr
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In this volume, seventeen scholars from Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia present their research on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics.The articles focus on the shaping of national …
Matica and Beyond
Cultural Associations and Nationalism in Europe
Inbunden, 2020
2472 kr
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Nineteenth-century national movements perceived the nation as a community defined by language, culture and history. Part of the infrastructure to spread this view of the nation were institutions publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language. Starting with the Matica srpska …
Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms and Emotions in the Baltic Sea Region
The Production of Loss
Av Anna Bohlin
Inbunden, 2021
2298 kr
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A sense of loss is a driving force in most nationalist movements: territorial loss, the loss of traditions, language, national virtues or of a Golden Age. But which emotions charged the construction of loss and how did they change over time? To what objects and bodies did emotions stick? How was …
First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe
Global Impact and Local Dynamics
Inbunden, 2020
2606 kr
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This volume assembles the papers presented at the conference The International Context of the Galician Language Brotherhoods and the Nationality Question in Interwar Europe (Council of Galician Culture, Santiago de Compostela, October 2016). The different contributions, written by historians, …
World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities
International Exhibitions as Cultural Platforms, 1851–1958
Inbunden, 2021
2110 kr
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This volume examines the role of the broad variety of international exhibitions between 1851 and 1958 in two programmatic essays and twelve case studies, covering not just France and the United States, but also, among others, Sweden, Romania, Colombia, Japan and the nascent European Community.World …
Old Norse-Icelandic Philology and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2021
2204 kr
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For centuries, the literary heritage preserved in Icelandic medieval manuscripts has played a vital role in the self-image of the Icelandic nation. From the late eighteenth century, Icelandic scholars had better opportunities than previously to study and publish this material on their own terms. …
Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919
Inbunden, 2022
2248 kr
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Winner of the 2022 Nordic History Book AwardDespite its failure as a political mobilizer, Scandinavism as a cultural movement would have a great impact on national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by stressing common ethnolinguistic, mythological and historical roots. This …
Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe
Inbunden, 2022
2800 kr
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This book sheds new light on the central role of the Grimms’ all too often neglected Deutsche Sagen (German Legends), published in 1816-1818 as a follow up to their famous collection of fairy tales. As the chapters in this book demonstrate, Deutsche Sagen, with its firmly nationalistic title, set …
Romantic Nationalism in India
Cultivation of Culture and the Global Circulation of Ideas
Inbunden, 2024
1640 kr
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Through the concept of ‘Romantic nationalism’, this interdisciplinary global historical study investigates cultural initiatives in (British) India that aimed at establishing the nation as a moral community and which preceded or accompanied state-oriented political nationalism. Drawing on a vast …
Representing the Middle Ages in Modern Portugal (1890–1947)
Historiography, Heritage, and Commemoration
Inbunden, 2025
2063 kr
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What role did the Middle Ages play in the construction of Portuguese national identity in the modern age? Which medieval ideas, themes, objects, buildings, events, and figures contributed to this process? How did Portuguese intellectuals, artists, and politicians from the late-nineteenth century to …
