The historical imagination in nineteenth-century Britain and the Low Countries /
Dunthorne, Hugh.
Wintle, Michael J.
Leiden : Brill,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands and the historical imagination in the nineteenth-century: an introduction / Michael Wintle -- From Waterloo Field to Bruges-la-Morte. Historical imagination in the nineteenth -- Century / Niek van Sas -- The scope and language of national history. -- A very English affair? Defining the borders of empire in nineteenth-century British historiography / Andrew Mycock -- Who is the nation and what does it do? The discursive construction of the nation in Belgian and Dutch national histories of the romantic period / Marnix Beyen -- The colonies in the Dutch national museums for art and history (1800-1885) -- Three historical fiction and collective identity. -- 'Retro-fitting the past': literary historicism between the golden spurs and Waterloo / Joep Leerssen -- The Victorians, the Dark Ages and English national identity / Joanne Parker -- 'A true conception of history': 'making the past part of the present' in late Victorian historical romances / Anna Vaninskaya -- The past imagined in the visual arts. -- Picturing patriotism: the image of the artist-hero and the Belgian nation state, 1830-1900 / Jenny Graham -- A few painters, a few heroes and many factory workers: in search of the historical culture of Belgian immigrants in northern France, 1850-1914 / Saartje Vanden Borre and Tom Verschaffel -- 'Retracing the history of our country': national history painting and engraving in Britain and the Low Countries during the nineteenth century / Hugh Dunthorne.
Art and history
Art and history
Art and history
Literature and history
Literature and history
Literature and history