Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe [electronic resource] : Nation-Building and Centenary Fever /
Leerssen, J.editor.
Rigney, A.editor.
This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Fanning out from Shakespeare; 1 Schiller 1859: Literary Historicism and Readership Mobilization; 2 Burns 1859: Embodied Communities and Transnational Federation; 3 Scott 1871: Celebration as Cultural Diplomacy; 4 Moore 1879: Ireland, America, Australia; 5 Dante 1865: The Politics and Limits of Aesthetic Education; 6 Petrarch 1804-1904: Nation-Building and Glocal Identities; 7 Petrarch 1874: Pan-National Celebrations and Provençal Regionalism
8 Voltaire 1878: Commemoration and the Creation of Dissent9 Vondel 1867: Amsterdam-Netherlands, Protestant-Catholic; 10 Conscience 1883: Between Flanders and Belgium; 11 Pushkin 1880: Fedor Dostoevsky Voices the Russian Self-Image; 12 Prešeren 1905: Ritual Afterlives and Slovenian Nationalism; 13 Mácha, Petőfi, Mickiewicz: (Un)wanted Statues in East-Central Europe; 14 Cervantes 1916: Literature as 'Exquisite Neutrality'; 15 Whose Camões? Canons, Celebrations, Colonialisms; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Civilization-History.
Historiography.
European literature.
Europe-History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural History.
Memory Studies.
European Literature.
European History.