Free access to the past : romanticism, cultural heritage and the nation

Free access to the past : romanticism, cultural heritage and the nation / edited by Lotte Jensen, Joep Leerssen, and Marita Mathijsen.

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 moderniz...

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Other Authors: Jensen, Lotte, Leerssen, Joseph Th. (Joseph Theodoor), 1955-, Mathijsen, Marita
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:National cultivation of culture.
Subjects:
Historiography > Social aspects > Europe.
Historicism > Social aspects > Europe.
Romanticism > Social aspects > Europe.
Cultural property > Social aspects > Europe.
Collective memory > Europe.
Nationalism > Europe.
HISTORY.
Collective memory
Cultural policy
Historiography
Historiography > Social aspects
Nationalism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Europe > Historiography.
Europe > Cultural policy.
Europe > Social conditions.
Europe > Politics and government.
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Joep Leerssen
  • pt. 1. The Appropriation of the Past
  • 1. The Melancholy of History: Disenchantment and the Possibility of Narrative after the French Revolution / Peter Fritzsche
  • 2. The Emancipation of the Past, as due to the Revolutionary French Ideology of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite / Marita Mathijsen
  • 3. Modernising the Past: The Life of the Gauls under the French Republic / Anne-Marie Thiesse
  • 4. From Bokendorf to Berlin: Private Careers, Public Sphere, and How the Past Changed in Jacob Grimm's Lifetime / Joep Leerssen
  • pt. 2. Monuments for the Past
  • 5. Public Commemorations and Private Interests: The Politics of State Funerals in London and Paris, 1806-1810 / Eveline G. Bouwers
  • 6. Inventing Literary Heritage: National Consciousness and Editorial Scholarship in Sweden, 1810-1830 / Paula Henrikson
  • 7. Literature as Access to the Past: The Rise of Historical Genres in the Netherlands, 1800-1850 / Lotte Jensen
  • pt. 3. A Public for the Past
  • 8. Free Access to the History of Art: Art Reproduction and the Appropriation of the History of Art in Nineteenth-Century Culture / R.M. Verhoogt
  • 9. Potgieter's 'Rijksmuseum' and the Public Presentation of Dutch History in the National Museum (1800-1844) / Ellinoor Bergvelt
  • 10. Singing of Conquest? Opera, History, and the Ambiguities of European Imperialism / Peter Rietbergen
  • 11. Nineteenth-Century National Opera and Representations of the Past in the Public Sphere / Krisztina Lajosi
  • 12. 'Reaping the Harvest of the Experiment?' The Government's Attempt to Train Enlightened Citizens through History Education in Revolutionary France (1789-1802) / Matthias Meirlaen
  • pt. 4. Past and Present
  • 13. The Past as a Place: Challenging Private Ownership of History in the United States / Sharon Ann Holt
  • 14. Impressed Images/Expressed Experiences: The Historical Imagination of Politics / Susan Legene.

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