Germania remembered 1500-2009 : commemorating and inventing a Germanic past /
Lee, Christina,1967-
McLelland, Nicola,1970-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conrad Celtis (1459-1508), the pride of German humanists / John L. Flood -- 'Knowing no other paintings than their shields': the Germanic origins of art in the seventeenth century / Thijs Weststeijn -- Germanic virtues in linguistic discourse in Germany (1500-1945) / Nicola McLelland -- A useful great-grandmother: edda receptions in post-medieval Germany / Christina Lee -- Germania in England: functions of the Germanic in English identity constructions and British historical thinking / Maike Oergel -- 'Not a foreign goddess': Germania, the Niederwald monument, and discourses of gender and nationalism / Geraldine Horan -- Consecrated groves: British India and the forests of Germania / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- The two faces of a national hero: Ulrich con Hutten's Arminius (1515/1529) and Heinrich von Kleist's Herrmann (1808) / Rachel MagShamhráin -- Ironic mythopoetics of absolute sovereignty in Heinrich von Kleist's Herrmannsschlacht (1808) / Tomislav Zelić -- Imagining Thusnelda and Thumelicus: Carl Wilhelm Goettling and Friedrich Halm's Der Fechter von Ravenna / Judith Beniston -- Urklänge: the search for the origins of German music (1910-1950) / Alexander Rehding -- From Hávamál to racial hygiene: Guido List's Das Geheimnis der Runen, "the secret of the runes" (1908) / Martin Findell -- Germania on stage: Nazi thing theatre / Anselm Heinrich -- Anselm Kiefer, die Hermannsschlacht, and the battle of modernism / Martin Brady -- Leaving the forest: 'Hermann the German' as cultural representation from nationalism to post-modern consumerism / Magnus Brechtken -- The global Westphalian: Arminius/Hermann as a post-national identification figure / Andreas Musolff.
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