Free Access to the Past

Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18029-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: National Cultivation of Culture

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 modernization-driven transfer of cultural relics into the public sphere. This process involved the establishment of museums, libraries, archives and university institutes, as well as the dissemination of historical knowledge through text editions, philological studies, historical novels, plays, operas and paintings, monuments and restorations. Antiquaries, philologists and historians produced a new past and rendered history a matter of public, national interest and collective identification.
This international and interdisciplinary collection explores the romantic-historicist complexities at the root of the modern nation-state.

Contributors are Ellinoor Bergvelt, Eveline G. Bouwers, Peter Fritzsche, Paula Henrikson, Sharon Ann Holt, Lotte Jensen, Krisztina Lajosi, Joep Leerssen, Susanne Legêne, Marita Mathijsen, Mathias Meirlaen, Peter Rietbergen, Anne-Marie Thiesse, and Robert Verhoogt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Leerssen, Joep

Fritzsche, Peter

Mathijsen-Verkooijen, Marita

Thiesse, Anne-Marie

Bouwers, Eveline Gerdina

Henrikson, Paula

Jensen, Lotte

Verhoogt, Robert

Bergvelt, Ellinoor S.

Rietbergen, Peter

Lajosi, Krisztina

Meirlaen, Matthias

Holt, Sharon Ann

Legêne, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction, Joep Leerssen

I. THE APPROPIATION 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 Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, Marita Mathijsen
3. Modernising the Past: The Life of the Gauls under the French Republic, Anne-MarieThiesse
4. From Bökendorf to Berlin: Private Careers, Public Sphere, and how the Past changed in Jacob Grimm’s Lifetime, Joep Leerssen

II. 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

III. A PUBLIC FOR THE PAST

8. Free Access to the History of Art: Art Reproduction and the Appropiation of the History of Art in the 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

IV. 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, Susanne Legêne

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lotte Jensen, Ph.D. (2001) in Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam, is Assistant Professor of Dutch Literary History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published widely in the areas of nineteenth-century Dutch literature, press history, and women authors.

Joep Leerssen, PhD (1986) in Literary Studies, University of Utrecht, is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. His research is on national stereotypes, the spread of romantic nationalism, and Irish cultural history.

Marita Mathijsen, Ph.D.(1987) in Literary Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, is Professor of Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published a wide range of books and articles on nineteenth-century literature and is a specialist on textual editing.