Folklore and nationalism in Europe during the long nineteenth century

Folklore and nationalism in Europe during the long nineteenth century / edited by Timothy Baycroft and David Hopkin.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book brings together work in the fields of History, Literary Studies, Music and Architecture to examine the place of folklore and representations of 'the people' in the development of nations across Europe during the nineteenth century.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Baycroft, Timothy, Hopkin, David M., 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.
Series:National cultivation of culture.
Subjects:
Europa
1800-1899
Folklore and nationalism > Europe > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, European > History > 19th century.
Philosophy, European > History > 19th century.
Folklore and nationalism
Manners and customs
National characteristics, European
Philosophy, European
Nationalbewusstsein
Volkskunde
Europe > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Oral Epic: The Nation Finds a Voice; Shaping the Voice of the People in Nineteenth-Century Operas; Folk Culture and Nation-Building in the Less than Developed World: A Study on the Visual Culture of Citizenship; Ideas of Folk and Nation in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Architecture; The Regional and the Global: Folk Culture at World's Fairs and the Reinvention of the Nation; Ethnographic Display and Political Narrative: The Salle de France of the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro
  • Displaying the Arlésienne: Museums, Folklife and Regional Identity in FranceFolklore as a Weapon: National Identity in German-Annexed Alsace, 1890-1914; Negotiating Progress and Degeneracy: Irish Antiquaries and the Discovery of the 'Folk', 1770-1844; Narrating Scotland: Andrew Lang's Fairy Book Collection, The Gold of Fairnilee, and 'A Creelfull of Celtic Stories'; England-The Land without Folklore?; An Imperialist Folklore? Establishing the Folk-Lore Society in London; The Ballad Revival and National Literature: Textual Authority and the Invention of Tradition
  • National Folklore, National Drama and The Creation of Visual National Identity: The Case of Jón Árnason, Sigurður Guðmundsson and Indriði Einarsson in IcelandOral Traditions and the Making of the Finnish Nation; Sorrowful Folksong and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Finland; Folklore beyond Nationalism: Identity Politics and Scientific Cultures in a New Discipline; Further Reading; Index

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